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  ICAB for tighter rules to check illegal employment of foreigners

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 12:14am on March 22, 2021

  The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Bangladesh on Sunday suggested that the National Board of Revenue should tighten rules to prevent employment of unauthorised foreign...

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  Government mulls ratifying ILO’s employment age convention

  Jasim Uddin | Updated at 11:43pm on February 06, 2021

  The government is considering ratification of the International Labour Organisation’s minimum age convention for admission into employment in a bid to keep its duty-free market...

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  Biden vows to ‘act fast’ on US stimulus amid weak Jan hiring

  Agence France-Presse . Washington | Updated at 11:33pm on February 06, 2021

  US President Joe Biden on Friday seized on feeble US employment data to argue the world’s largest economy needs his $1.9 trillion pandemic relief package,...

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  US jobless claim data underscores employment crisis awaiting Biden

  Agence France-Presse . Washington | Updated at 10:42pm on January 22, 2021

  US government data released the day after Joe Biden entered the White House made clear the scale of the employment crisis facing the new president...

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  Drop in US jobless claims small bright spot in troubled labour market

  Agence France-Presse . Washington | Updated at 10:39pm on December 04, 2020

  A drop in new applications for US unemployment benefits reported on Thursday offered small comfort to the millions of Americans who will see pandemic aid...

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  Employment situation in dire straits

  Shakhawat Hossain and Mustafizur Rahman    | Updated at 12:11am on September 15, 2020

  The unemployment problem in the country has become dire following the COVID-19 outbreak as the two-month-long total shutdown and its lingering effects have caused countless...

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  Challenges for disability inclusive employment in Bangladesh

  Md Taslim Uddin | Updated at 12:00am on September 15, 2020

  RENOWNED physicist Stephen Hawking writes, ‘We have a moral duty to remove the barriers to participation, and to invest sufficient funding and expertise to unlock...

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  US Fed unveils major policy shift to maximise job growth

  Agence France-Presse . Washington | Updated at 10:41pm on August 28, 2020

  The US central bank rolled out a major policy change on Thursday that gives greater weight to its mission of maximizing employment for the benefit...

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  Govt drafts employment policy, eyes 3 crore new jobs by 2030

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 11:10pm on August 23, 2020

  The government has drafted the National Employment Policy 2020 with the aim of absorbing the surplus labour through creating jobs for three crore people by...

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  Moves to streamline foreigners’ jobs in Bangladesh fall flat

  Jasim Uddin | Updated at 11:59pm on August 21, 2020

  All major steps taken by government agencies to check illegal employment of and tax evasion by foreign nationals and to prepare a database of such...