Minimum wages should not be confused with fixing pay scale
WORKERS wages at least in one-third of all private sector enterprises remained unchanged from last six years to 33 years when inflation and cost of...
Editorial
Most workers still vulnerable at workplaces
Md. Sazedul Islam :Bangladesh along with rest of the world observes May Day, the historic day epitomising workers’ struggle for their rights, by calling for...
Readers’ Forum
Keep your home clean first :In 1971, when we were fighting for our existence, the United States of America (USA) gave the Pakistan government all...
People`s money is looted away but people suffer hardship
JUST after seven months, the government is once again going to increase the price of natural gas for household and motor vehicle users as the...
Party politics among workers is not good for workers
THE May Day is commemorated world over to protect workers from employers’ exploitation. However, the occasion in Bangladesh is most conspicuous by slow steps in...
May Day: Prevent hazardous child labour
Dr. Md. Shairul Mashreque and Dr. M Abul Kashem Mozumder :The great seminal event like Mayday reminds us of the protection of workers’ rights-their occupational...
Civil society must change itself before it can change the world
Danny Sriskandarajah :This week, more than 900 activists from more than 100 countries are meeting in Bogotá, Colombia for International Civil Society Week. We will...
Ban the bomb tests
Des Browne :The Nuclear Security Summit process, which concluded earlier this month in Washington, DC, shows what can be achieved when political leaders come together...
Moves to remove the stresses and strains in US-Saudi ties
Sabria Chowdhury Balland :“Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.”—President Jimmy...
Europe needs low-skilled migrant workers too
Anna Triandafyllidou, Sabrina Marchetti :This resolution would also counter-balance the European Commission’s Communication published on 6 April, which, under the pressure of the dramatic on-going...
Readers’ Forum
Why Sarat Bose failed? :The Bengal Muslim League leaders H.S. Suhrawardy and Abul Hashim, and the Forward Bloc leader Sarat Bose began to construct independent...
Whitening black money for unknown clients
AS BEFORE, the government is reportedly going to allow whitening of black money in the upcoming National Budget for FY 2016-17 on payment of certain...