Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed on Sunday said the government has already ensured the rights of all workers, especially in Ready Made Garments (RMG) sector aiming to create a congenial environment in factories and accelerate the economy as well. “The government has amended the Labour Law to establish their rights,” he told journalists after emerging from a meeting with a five-member delegation of International Labour Organisation (ILO) led by Elizabeth Faith Onuko, Kenyan Minister Counsellor (Labour) to the United Nations, at his secretariat office, according to a release. During the meeting, they discussed various issues including labour rights of the country’s apparel factories. The government has taken various steps including closing the defective factories, establishing international level green industry, forming workers welfare association and ensuring full wages for the labour to make smooth and worker’s friendly environment in the factories, the minister said. He also said the government has taken initiatives to set up 100 special economic zones having all sorts of facilities for investors from both home and abroad to make the country as an investment hub. He said various envoys in Dhaka including those of European Union and United State expressed satisfaction to visit the country’s apparel factories. Among others, Senior Secretary of Commerce Ministry Hedayetullah Al Mamoon and Additional Secretary of the ministry M Shawkat Hossain Waresi were present.
