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The Unprecedented Pandemic 'COVID-19' Effect on the Bangladesh Apparel Workers by Shivering the Apparel Supply Chain
Sen, Shuvro - 2020
manufacturing factories. Bangladesh's apparel manufacturing industry is also drastically affected due to COVID-19. The factories can …
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The Apparel Workers Are in the Highest Vulnerability Due to COVID-19 : A Study on the Bangladesh Apparel Industry
Sen, Shuvro; Antara, Neel; Sen, Shusmita; Chowdhury, Sunny - 2020
Bangladesh Garments Industry are in the highest vulnerability situation due to the COVID-19. Due to the shortage of raw materials … in Bangladesh are in the most vulnerable situation. Some of them do not have a job while some of them have to continue …
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Monitoring Harassment in Organizations
Boudreau, Laura; Chassang, Sylvain; Gonzalez-Torres, Ada; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We evaluate secure survey methods designed for the ongoing monitoring of harassment in organizations. We use the resulting data to answer policy relevant questions about the nature of harassment: How prevalent is it? What share of managers is responsible for the misbehavior? How isolated are its...
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The effects of international scrutiny on manufacturing workers: evidence from the Rana Plaza collapse in Bangladesh
Bossavie, Laurent; Cho, Yoonyoung; Heath, Rachel - 2020
have plausibly affected workers in the Ready Made Garment (RMG) sector in Bangladesh. These responses included a minimum …
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Sexual harassment in the workplace : despite being illegal, costly, and an affront to dignity, sexual harassment is pervasive and challenging to eliminate
Hersch, Joni - 2015
Workplace sexual harassment is internationally condemned as sex discrimination and a violation of human rights, and more than 75 countries have enacted legislation prohibiting it. Sexual harassment in the workplace increases absenteeism and turnover and lowers workplace productivity and job...
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Reasonable Wages for Workers to Eliminate Unrest in Bangladesh's Ready-Made Garments (RMG) Sector
Bhuiyan, Mohammad - 2017
This paper summarizes the main causes of unrest in Bangladesh's ready-made garments (RMG) sector and how they can be … resolved. It provides some background on the degree of unrest in Bangladesh's RMG sector, focusing on six major unrests during …
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Between keeping your head down and trying to get noticed : agency workers in French car assembly plants
Purcell, Christina; Brook, Paul; Lucas, Rosemary - In: Management revue : socio-economic studies 22 (2011) 2, pp. 169-187
Numerical flexibility is commonly promoted as a driver of employment growth. However, contingent work is frequently associated with “bad jobs”, particularly for those in low skilled occupations. Agency work is a common and growing form of contingent work and is often promoted as a tool for...
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Implementing Sustainability Practices Challenges in Bangladeshi Garment Industry
Alam, PhD, Faisul - 2023
social, environmental and economic context of businesses. As an important part of the global garment industry, Bangladesh … also has many more challenges in terms of sustainability. Though a significant percentage of GDP growth of Bangladesh is … specially focuses on the garment industry in Bangladesh. However, the purpose of this research is to apply the dimensions of the …
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A Business Case for Human Rights at Work? Experimental Evidence on Labor Trafficking and Child Labor at Brick Kilns in Bangladesh
Miller, Grant; Biswas, Debashish; Mahajan, Aprajit; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
across nearly 300 brick kilns in Bangladesh. Among study kilns, rates of coercive and child labor are high: about 50% of …
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Editorial: Atypische Beschäftigungsverhältnisse – Einleitung zum Schwerpunktheft
Keller, Berndt; Nienhüser, Werner - In: Industrielle Beziehungen 21 (2014) 1, pp. 5-14
Zu den atypischen Beschaeftigungsverhaeltnissen zaehlen wir im Folgenden (im Sinne einer Nominaldefinition) Teilzeit, geringfuegige Beschaeftigung/Mini- und Midijobs, befristete Beschaeftigung, Leiharbeit, Werkvertraege sowie Solo-Selbststaendigkeit. Die dieses Schwerpunktheftes spiegeln sowohl...
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