After a successful pilot, the Gender Equality and Returns (GEAR) initiative will be scaled up to train 700 female operators and their managers in 70 factories. GEAR trained 144 female workers in the pilot phase; 58 of whom are now in supervisory roles with a 39 percent increase in salary.
The International Labour Organization turns 100 this year, marking ten decades working for social justice and decent work for all. Find out how the agency has transformed the garment industry since its earliest days.
Better Work launches a step-change five-year strategy to significantly increase its impact in the global garment industry.
Better Work Bangladesh helps new mothers stay healthy and continue to earn
Better Work and Disney have teamed up in an effort to improve factory working conditions. The partnership led to trainings for 201 managers from 115 licensee companies that in turn contract some 2,447 factories.
A Better Work course and brochure gives migrant workers a clear idea of what to expect in their new country of residence
Mothers@Work, a national initiative to support maternity rights and promote breastfeeding in the garment sector has been launched in Bangladesh.
Better Work will collaborate with Fair Wear Foundation, an international multistakeholder initiative, to streamline aspects of their factory-level operations and offer their respective business partners new benefits.
Sexual harassment concerns in factories are down since the launch of an awareness-raising training.
Better Work Bangladesh held its second stakeholder and buyer forum in Dhaka to explore progress made by the programme and challenges remaining.
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