Govt, owners prefer use of force to negotiations
The government and most of the private companies now prefer use of force involving political leaders and the police to lawful negotiations with trade unions for settlement of labour disputes, labour leaders say. Full storyRizvi, Ratan arrested
The police on Monday arrested the BNP’s joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi and party leader Kamruzzaman Ratan and continued raiding houses to arrest top leaders of the opposition alliance after the... Full storyHigh level visits from US, Japan, India between May 3 and 6
Three foreign dignitaries—Japanese deputy prime minister Katsuya Okada, US secretary of state Hillary Rodham Clinton and Indian finance minister Pranab Kumar Mukherjee—would pay official visits... Full storyStrike passes off amid sporadic clashes
Sporadic violence, chase between pickets and police, bomb blasts and attacks on vehicles marked the second day of the opposition’s nationwide back-to-back shutdowns on Monday in protest... Full storyAbout 12,000 cases pending in labour courts
Eleven thousand and nine hundred cases are pending as of late April in the seven labour courts and Labour Appellate Tribunals of Bangladesh, with one of the courts operating... Full storyNo nat’l minimum wage on horizon
Successive governments have not taken any steps to set a national minimum wage resulting in particular hardship to millions of workers, mostly in the informal sector, labour leaders say. Full storyHistoric May Day today
BNP leaders named in case on intel report: minister
State minister for home affairs Shamsul Haque on Monday said Bangladesh Nationalist Party leaders, including its acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, had been accused in... Full storyThai military plane skids off runway at Shahjalal airport
PM agrees as Ilias’s wife seeks appointment
