The Tripartite Consultative Committee (TCC) finalised on Tuesday the draft rules on implementation of the labour law by addressing some thorny issues.
The issues include formation of safety committees, payment of workers' benefit during factory relocation and creation of a welfare fund for export-oriented sectors, according to State Minister for Labour Mujibul Haque Chunnu.
"The rules will be published in a gazette on nod of the cabinet and vetting from the law ministry," he told reporters after the TCC meeting held at his Secretariat office on the day. The minister is head of the TCC.
Labour Secretary Mikail Shipar and Inspector General of the Department of Inspection for Factories and Establishments (DIFE) Syed Ahmed, among others representing employers and workers, were present at the meeting.
Earlier at a meeting on May 06 last exporters agreed to contribute 0.03 per cent of their export receipts to the proposed welfare fund for workers.
The amended labour law 2013 incorporated a provision providing for creation of the welfare fund for workers in the country's export-oriented sectors.
The central bank would collect the agreed 0.03 per cent of export receipts during opening of any L/C (letter of credit) and it would be transferred to a separate account for the proposed welfare fund, the minister said.
The fund would be spent for wellbeing of the workers of the export- oriented sectors, he said adding the workers of sick industries in such sectors would get support from it.
Regarding the safety committees, he said registered trade unions (TU) and workers' participation committees (WPC) in garment units would select their representatives while the Department of Labour or DIFE would organise election, if there is no TU or WPC.
If a factory is relocated within 25km and any worker is unwilling to join there, he or she would get all kinds of benefit, including the service benefit as per the law, a meeting source said. The distance is currently 50 km, he added.
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