Promoting decent work and organizing for the targeted Home-Based RMG Workers (HBRMGWs) engaged in formal RMG

Home-Based RMG Workers are very important part of the Rady Made Garment supply chain. This sector has provided income-generating opportunities for poor and marginalized women from vulnerable households, with minimal skills and education required to enter the RMG workforce. This sub-sector remains largely invisible, despite providing “hidden” labour to leading export factories on a piece-rate basis. Home-workers have few opportunities to negotiate their working conditions and possess no bargaining power with their employers. Contractors exploit cheap, female labour to their advantage. While we take pride in the fact that the RMG industry in Bangladesh is run and facilitated by women, we must not turn a blind eye to this large and vulnerable segment of the workforce.

Bangladesh Labour Foundation (BLF) has been working with the Home-Based RMG workers for long time. BLF has designed this project under the support of Oxfam GB and con-financing by EU. We have targeted the home-based workers of Gazipur and Dhaka district of this project.