Rights benefits and social justice: status of women workers engaged in the shrimp processing industries of Bangladesh

Mohammad Nuruzzaman, . and Shahed Uddin Md. Selim, . and Mohammad Hiru Miah, . Rights benefits and social justice: status of women workers engaged in the shrimp processing industries of Bangladesh. pp. 151-163. ISSN 0116-6514

Labour rights and benefits and safety at work across the industrial sector in Bangladesh have been a key areas of concern and has attracted attention from various national and international labour rights organisations and also from buyers and consumers globally. After the tragic incident of a building Collapse killing more than a thousand garment workers at Dhaka in April 2013 the Generalised System of Preference (GSP) facility was suspended for Bangladesh by US markets; which also had Ramifications on the labour non-compliance in the shrimp processing sector. The shrimp and seafood industry has been a very promising economic sector from which the country receives the second largest foreign exchange earnings. The inability to respond to the evolving needs of social compliance and implementation of labour rights made the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) to collaborate with the Bangladesh government and the export industry in developing manuals training of trainers on the labour laws and also aid in their implementation. In this study an attempt has been made to assess compliance with labour rights legislation and the benefits accruing from them by interviewing workers across selected shrimp processing factories. Though the assessment revealed perceptible progress it still leaves much to be desired. Awareness has generally been raised but many top executives are still not convinced and carry strong patriarchal views. The government has amended the labour laws which require adequate vigilance and inspection to achieve better compliance to benefit millions of poor workers engaged in this sector

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Abstract

Labour rights and benefits and safety at work across the industrial sector in Bangladesh have been a key areas of concern and has attracted attention from various national and international labour rights organisations and also from buyers and consumers globally. After the tragic incident of a building Collapse killing more than a thousand garment workers at Dhaka in April 2013 the Generalised System of Preference (GSP) facility was suspended for Bangladesh by US markets; which also had Ramifications on the labour non-compliance in the shrimp processing sector. The shrimp and seafood industry has been a very promising economic sector from which the country receives the second largest foreign exchange earnings. The inability to respond to the evolving needs of social compliance and implementation of labour rights made the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) to collaborate with the Bangladesh government and the export industry in developing manuals training of trainers on the labour laws and also aid in their implementation. In this study an attempt has been made to assess compliance with labour rights legislation and the benefits accruing from them by interviewing workers across selected shrimp processing factories. Though the assessment revealed perceptible progress it still leaves much to be desired. Awareness has generally been raised but many top executives are still not convinced and carry strong patriarchal views. The government has amended the labour laws which require adequate vigilance and inspection to achieve better compliance to benefit millions of poor workers engaged in this sector

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Item Type:	Article
AGROVOC Term:	Status of women
AGROVOC Term:	Human rights
AGROVOC Term:	Prawns and shrimps
AGROVOC Term:	Labour
AGROVOC Term:	Industrial sector
AGROVOC Term:	Processing
AGROVOC Term:	Seafoods
AGROVOC Term:	Economic sectors
AGROVOC Term:	Training programmes
AGROVOC Term:	Work force
Depositing User:	Ms. Suzila Mohamad Kasim
Last Modified:	24 Apr 2025 06:28
URI:	http://webagris.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/23686

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