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

eval_number:

2509

eval_url:

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

location:

country:

Bangladesh

region:

Asia and the Pacific

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eval_title:

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

recommendations:

date:

2023-11-13 00:00:00.0

themes:

theme:

Governance and Tripartism

category:

Labour relations

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comments:

"In the new proposal for a cluster initiative on labour administration, the following milestones will be achieved in the course of time which are given below: • Self-Accountability Framework developed on AUD, ULP and Conciliators • Complaint remediation mechanism developed • Case management system for remediation developed • Training Manual on Self Accountability Framework, Remediation and Case Management developed • Master trainer on Self Accountability Framework, Remediation and Case Management developed • Policies to support independent arbitration council developed • National Training Programme on Arbitration and Conciliation developed • Support creation of help desk at labour courts • Establish roadmap for SD through state of play • Establish Secretariat for the specific TCC's • Fully functioning secretariat of the TCC • Establish additional sectoral TCC's or working groups under the NTCC • Establish policy level dialogue capacities for Tripartite Constituents • An evidence-based and gender-responsive National Wage Policy is in place after a wide consultation and validation, with social partners, in tripartite settings that will be in line with ILO Convention C100 • Increased participation of women and youth leaders for the growth of TU organizations • Trade unions are well capacitated to represent and protect the interest of workers through collective bargaining and social dialogue"

action_plan:

"2.2.1 Provide technical assistance to the Government of Bangladesh to develop a set of Self-accountability framework with a clear demarcation of roles of DoL, DIFE, and Industrial Police in addressing acts of anti-union discrimination, unfair labour practices, and violence at work, including gender discrimination. 2.2.2: Provide technical support to DoL to develop a speedy and effective complaint remediation mechanism to address acts of anti-union discrimination, unfair labour practices, and violence at work, including gender discrimination. 2.2.3: Support the Government of Bangladesh in developing a case management and recording system for remediation of acts of anti-union discrimination, unfair labour practices, and violence at work, including gender discrimination. 2.2.4: Conduct tripartite consultation and validation of the self-accountability framework, complaint remediation framework, and case management system. 2.2.5: Conduct training and capacity building of DoL-DIFE-Industrial Police, workers and employers on self-accountability framework, legal framework, complaint remediation mechanism and case management system. 2.2.6: Develop a gender responsive sustainability plan by measuring improvement 2.2.7 Support the Department of Labour in developing a training manual and relevant materials 2.2.8: Support the Department of Labour to develop master trainers to facilitate trainings at wider level on training manual and relevant materials 2.2.9 Support training of tripartite constituents by the Master Trainers on training manual and other relevant materials (Pre and post test) 2.3.1. Support the Department of Labour to develop a self-Accountability Framework (or Transparency Protocol) to ensure transparency and effectiveness of the Conciliators. 2.3.2: Facilitate tripartite consultation to agree and validate the Self-Accountability Framework (Transparency Protocol) 2.3.3: Training of Conciliators on the legal framework and the adopted Self-Accountability Framework (Transparency Protocol), soft skills and other necessary skills of assisted bargaining (pre and post test) 2.3.4: Develop a sustainability plan based on the measurement of progress. 2.3.5: Facilitate a pre-development consultation, both in bilateral and tripartite settings, to note and compile recommendations from all the concerned parties, including the employers and the workers. 2.3.6 Support the development of the draft SoP for Arbitration with the aim to make it incorporated into the legal framework 2.3.7: Facilitate validation of draft SOP on arbitration among the tripartite constituents 2.3.8: Provide technical assistance to the panel of arbitrators on the adopted legal framework and necessary soft skills Activity 2.3.1: Establishment of an Independent Arbitration Council or Cell, including policies and framework for its effective functioning (FMCS to support) Activity 2.3.2: Capacity building support provided to the Arbitrators and the staffs of the Independent Arbitration Cell/Council Activity 2.3.3: Establishment of a Digital Case Management System that enables the relevant Institution/s, both for the Arbitration and Conciliation processes/cases, to record every cases with the needed updates being made regularly. Activity 2.3.4: Develop a SoP/Operation Manual/Modus Operandi to operate, update and facilitate this Digital Case Management System, both for the Arbitration and Conciliation processes/cases. Activity 2.3.5:Training of DoL/other institutions on Digital Case Management System Activity 2.3.6: Develop a certified National Training Programme on Arbitration and Conciliation Activity 2.3.7: : Defining role of DoL, DIFE, and Industrial Police, in policies and legal frameworks, for them to address Industrial Disputes following their legal mandate and scope of work. Based on this demarcation of role, provide intensive learning opportunity (training) to the officials of these 3 organizations in addressing a

management_response:

Partially Completed

progress:

Partially achieved

admin_units:

CO-Dhaka

title:

Recommendation 5. In view of the dire needs for reform in the RMG sector ILO should (in close cooperation with MoLE/DoL) continue to pursue issues that were unsuccessful in the SDIR project, namely: Grievance handling and dispute resolution mechanisms at national level; A functional independent arbitration cell to be part of a separate Statutory Regulatory Ordinance (and SoP to guide the functioning of such a cell); Encourage the GoB to amend the Labour Law in 2023, and promote CBAs at enterprise level.

project_symbols:

BGD/15/03/MUL

url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/recommendations/16702

information_source:

Country Office

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