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Promoting social dialogue and harmonious industrial relations in Bangladesh ready-made garment industry - Final Evaluation

eval_number:

2509

eval_title:

Promoting social dialogue and harmonious industrial relations in Bangladesh ready-made garment industry - Final Evaluation

location:

region:

Asia and the Pacific

country:

Bangladesh

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eval_url:

https://analyticstest.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/2509

recommendations:

title:

Recommendation 4. DoL and the Trade Union Federations should ensure that only real trade unions are registered in the publicly available database, and avoid the so called “yellow unions” to be registered.

url:

https://analyticstest.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/recommendations/16701

action_plan:

As an action plan the following activities are aimed at supporting the registration of independent trade unions: 2.1.1.1: Facilitate study to identify the barriers of TU Registration in both policy (including legal framework) and practice 2.1.1.2: Review the existing systems both for online and manual (offline) trade union registration, including the publicly accessible database 2.1.1.3: Tripartite dialogue on the findings and recommendations of the study and review facilitated under 2.1.1.1 and 2.1.1.2 2.1.1.4: Adopting an agreed (tripartite) action plan aligned with the recommendations made earlier 2.1.1.5: Develop knowledge and communication materials for wider dissemination of knowledge and information needed for a registration of trade union 2.1.1.6: Capacity development of the users of the TU registration processes and mechanisms, both for the workers and employers 2.1.1.7: Capacity development of the officials and staffs of the Department of Labour to act on the agreed actions and recommendations to bring transparency and effectiveness in the TU registration processes 2.1.1.8: Capacity development of the officials and staffs of the Department of Labour to support to increase collective bargaining agreement (CBA) at enterprise levels. 2.1.1.9: Measure the improvements through a pre and post intervention study Activity 3.2.1: Provide capacity building support to government officials, trade union leaders, and employers on the new online trade union registration process Activity 3.2.2: Establish a system for monitoring and evaluating the effectiveness of the new trade union registration system Activity 3.2.3: Support system for TU registration to accompany and successfully complete registrations (BLAST, bils, federations support to processes of TU’s) Activity 3.2.4: Assist and help newly registered TU in establishing their activities and plans"

comments:

Maintaining the legitimacy of trade unions is a principal concern for ILO, as the presence of misrepresented entities—commonly known as “yellow unions”—can compromise the credibility and functionality of the system. In alignment with our commitment to uphold the authenticity and reliability of trade union representations, going forward the plan is to secure the implementation of the recommended action plan TU registration appraisal committee will be established by the DoL (bringing together TU/employer representatives) to periodic follow-up on to the processed and pending registration applications. Uniform checklist will be developed for the verification of TU application to be used by the all divisional DoL offices. Knowledge and communication materials will be developed for wider dissemination of knowledge and information needed for a registration of trade union. More user-friendly online TU registration system will be in place to continue.

date:

2023-11-13 00:00:00.0

progress:

Partially achieved

management_response:

Partially Completed

information_source:

Country Office

admin_units:

CO-Dhaka

project_symbols:

BGD/15/03/MUL

themes:

theme:

Constituents

category:

Trade Union - capacity building

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