"Target Corp. aims to give $200 recognition bonuses to all of its more than 340,000 frontline workers, a total investment of $75 million. Plans call for the bonus to be paid in August to all hourly fu ...
"Throughout fashion, the numbers just don’t add up. High-street clothing has been getting cheaper and cheaper for decades. A major reason why, according to Gordon Renouf, the CEO of the fashion ethics ...
"Instead of a long lockdown, all efforts should have been taken for mass vaccinating RMG workers of the country. [...] Due to mass vaccination success in the USA and Europe, both of the regions were o ...
"LK Bennett has launched LK Borrowed, an unlimited subscription clothing rental service. The service will be powered by e-commerce management service CaaStle. LK Borrowed allows customers in the UK to ...
"The J.C. Penney Co. Inc. is now a member of The Jeans Redesign. Launched in 2019 by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation (EMF) to address waste and pollution in the fashion industry by starting with jeans, ...
"The next time you are in the fruit and vegetable section of your local supermarket, hand-picking the source of your latest five-a-day, take a look at the potential origins of your next luxury handbag ...
It has been a month since the government allowed business owners to apply to implement the '3 in one spot' [3 tại chỗ - i.e., food, accommodation and production in one place] in factories. The model, ...
"Buying items at low cost is one of the main features of Shein and AliExpress . Both platforms offer millions of articles on their websites. Today we show you 5 reasons you might not know why you shou ...
"The Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training announces the opening of subsidies to 3,953 workers at 45 factories in the garment sector. [...] The allowance will be paid in KHR and depends on the nu ...
"A minibus carrying garment workers has been involved in an accident in Kasba upazila of Brahmanbaria. A child named Eva (8) was killed. The accident took place on the Comilla-Sylhet highway in front ...
"A fine of Tk 200,000 [$2,360.44] has been imposed on a garment factory called Sparrow Apparels in the Laxmipura area of Gazipur for ignoring strict lockdown and government directives. The fine was im ...
"The American Apparel and Footwear Association has urged US president Joseph R Biden to increase the distribution of Covid vaccines to Bangladesh and other partner countries around the world to curb t ...
"The Better Cotton Initiative has announced a pilot trial of ‘Worker Voice Technology’ to understand the challenges people face, especially regarding labour. What are the expected benefits, and are th ...
"What happened following that announcement was terrible to watch. Tens of thousands of people, mostly garment workers and employees, came out of their village homes like locusts and crowded ferries, t ...
"Several enterprises that applied the stay-at-work model over the past month have seen it backfire with more and more Covid-19 infections appearing in their factories. [...] "The accuracy of rapid tes ...
"Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Sunday said business people have failed to keep their promise of reopening the export oriented factories only with workers available in Dhaka and its ...
"The government has made a complete mess of the reopening of export-oriented factories amid "strict lockdown" enforced to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus. On Friday night, it announced the de ...
"Around 90 per cent of the readymade garment workers on Sunday returned to their respective workplaces as factory owners opened their units on the day amid the strict movement restrictions with approv ...
"The garment workers will not lose jobs for delays in joining workplaces because of the restrictions on movement during lockdown, said Faruque Hassan, president of Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and ...
"Free trade agreements are often criticised for paving the way for corporations in richer countries to outsource their production to countries with lower wages, weaker unions and inferior environmenta ...
