BILS, with the support of Mondiaal FNV organised a workshop under its Social Dialogue, Gender Equality and Decent Work in Bangladesh on status reporting of decent work in RMG sector on November 28, 2019 at BILS Seminar Hall, Dhanmondi, Dhaka. The workshop was organised aiming to collect the information regarding the present status of decent work in RMG sector of four cluster area.
At the beginning of the workshop, an elaborate discussion on the explanation of the process of writing the report was provided to the participants. After this, participants were divided into four groups according to their area and each group prepared a report by joining in the group discussion.
FNV Advocacy and Networking Officer Chowdhury Borhan Uddin, Decent Work Desk Officer Fariba Tabassum and a total number of 18 participants including organisers and Trade Union leaders of four cluster area (Dhaka-Mirpur, Savar-Ashulia, Tongi-Gazipur and Narayanganj) of SKOP, BILS and IndustriAll Bangladesh Council participated in the workshop.
In the reports the participants highlighted elaborately the current status of decent work in the factories which are located in four cluster areas. For the betterment of the present situation and ensuring the decent work at the workplace they recommended to provide identity card among the workers of the factories, to arrange workshop at the field level for collecting cluster based accurate information, to ensure right to form Trade Union, to cancel the partnership committee, to form monitoring committee at the national level, in their reports.