Displaced workers of three sectors to receive cash assistance
The workers who dropped their jobs because of the Covid-19 fallout across three sectors -- garments, leather and footwear -- are going to finally receive Tk 3,000 monthly as financial assistance.
In the primary phase, 1,794 persons are certain to get cash assistance of Tk 3,000 each month for a three-month period beginning with September.
Begum Mannujan Sufian, state minister for labour and employment, inaugurated the social security programme for unemployed and hardworking staff in export-oriented garments, leather goods and footwear at Shrama Bhaban found in the capital's Bijoy Nagar area yesterday.
The grants are being financed by Germany and the EU.
The staff of export-oriented factories, which closed down, received financial the help of this package and so the labour and employment ministry has sent a list of unemployed personnel of the industrial units in these sectors for the grant as well.
In line with the ministry, it submitted a set of 7,390 personnel, which 1,894 have already been finalised, even while selections are going on among the rest.
"However in the meantime, the school funding meant for workers that contain been built redundant by the existing situation will continue steadily to remain idle," Sufian stated.
The government aims to disburse Tk 3,000 per month for a three-month period to about 10 lakh personnel over the next two fiscal years, according to last week's circular from the labour and employment ministry.
Beneficiaries will have the funds directly through cell financial providers or their bank accounts, he added.
Any worker, including lactating mothers, who were used in any lively member factory of the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA), Bangladesh Knitwear Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BKMEA), Leathergoods and Footwear Manufacturers and Exporters Association of Bangladesh (LFMEAB) and Bangladesh Finished Leather, Leathergoods and Footwear Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BFLLFEA) until February this time meet the criteria for the grant.
The state minister continued to say that the full total number of beneficiaries will increase in time.
She also hoped for more international organisations to come forward and cooperate with the federal government to supply support for workers in all sectors.
Factories can submit a good list of eligible personnel in a good structured management information system format to the BGMEA, that may then forward it all to the labour ministry and the Department of Inspection for Factories and Establishment (DIFE).
The federal government might extend this service beyond its time period limit for social safety net purposes if it's noticed that the workers could not go back to their jobs and on the basis of the option of funds from the federal government exchequer and donor agencies.
So, the federal government also known as for increased donations from donor organizations.
Many personnel lost their jobs because of the two-month nationwide shutdown between March 26 and May 30 while others were laid-off for too little work orders from international retailers and brands amid the Covid-19 fallout, which includes severely jolted the global economy.
Millions of personnel at the organization level, mills and factories lost their jobs due to the pandemic and neither the country's staff, exports, imports or companies were immune to the monetary fallouts.
As a end result, a great number of workers lost their careers. Of these recently unemployed, some gets careers in another factory but not at substantial rates, according to industry insiders.
However, many personnel who cannot complete a one-season tenure in their position it's still permitted to avail the fund.
Presided over by AKM Mizanur Rahman, director general of the directorate of labour, the program was also addressed by Begum Shamsu Nahar, a lawmaker; KM Abdus Salam, secretary for labour and occupation; Constanza Zaehringer, charge de affairs of the German embassy, and Maurizio Cian, mind of cooperation of the delegation of the European Union.
