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The government of Bangladesh has set an ambitious target of generating 30 million new job opportunities by the year 2030. [3] In its endeavor to improve labor conditions and expand employment opportunities, the Government of Bangladesh has undertaken significant initiatives to establish a specialized entity known as the "Directorate of Employment."
Non government teachers contribute six percent of their salaries to the trust for a retirement fund that will be available to them after retirement and with additional funding from the government of Bangladesh. In April 2019, the government increased it to ten percent which was protested by the Bangladesh Shikkhak Union, a teachers union.
Bangladesh Shikkhak Union, a teachers union, protested the government order to increase the contribution to the pension fund from six percent of their salary to ten percent in 2019. [4] This move was protested by another union of teachers called National Front of Teachers and Employees when it was first proposed in 2017. [5]
Girls and women were the most common employees of the garment industry. The garment industry is the largest employer of child labour in the formal sector. [7] The industry expanded rapidly from 1983 to 1999, becoming the country's largest source of export earnings. [22] Bangladesh is in the top ten largest garment exporters in the world. [23]
Bangladesh Civil Service traces its origins to the Civil Service of Pakistan which was based on the Indian Civil Service of the British Raj. [10] After the independence of Bangladesh, the Awami League government under president Sheikh Mujibur Rahman established a quota for the Bangladesh Civil Service through an order of the Ministry of Cabinet Services.
The Government agencies in Bangladesh are state controlled organizations that act independently to carry out the policies of the Government of Bangladesh. The Government Ministries are relatively small and merely policy-making organizations, allowed to control agencies by policy decisions.
In 2016, NCCWE took part in a project through which workers who were killed by accidents on their workplaces would receive 50,000 taka (~€487/$590) in compensation. [5] In 2018, NCCWE together with the IndustriALL Bangladesh Council formed the Workers' Resource Centre, an NGO dedicated to supporting unions and workers in Bangladesh. [6] [7]
The legislature of Bangladesh is unicameral. Called the Jatiya Sangsad in Bengali, it is the parliament of Bangladesh. The speaker presides over meetings of the Jatiya Sangsad and conducts its business in an orderly fashion. The current Jatiya Sangsad contains 350 seats, including 50 seats reserved exclusively for women and 300 seats for ...