Some 46.32% of 9,915 factories in seven industrial areas, including Ashulia, Gazipur, Narayanganj, and Chattogram, are yet to pay Eid bonuses to their workers until Sunday, according to the Industrial Police. Of those, 303 factories haven't even cleared the wages for the previous month of May, violating the labour act which stipulates that wages need to be cleared within the
Three years after the closure of state-run jute mills, Bangladesh Jute Mills Corporation (BJMC) is still failing to attract investors to re-open its jute mills.
The use of jute sacks to package 19 commodities remains a far cry 13 years past the enactment of the Mandatory Jute Packaging Act 2010. The law was enacted to protect the interests of jute growers and millers and limit the use of environmentally harmful plastic bags.
The government has removed the condition for raw jute exporters of taking prior approval from the commerce ministry before shipment, according to a notice issued by Export Promotion Bureau (EPB) yesterday.