Alert for BGMEA

By AZ, Dhaka
9 July 2004, 18:00 PM
Looting of cash on way from bank to offices of garment factories is becoming a regular feature in these days of hold-ups, and terrorism. Therefore the BGMEA should provide the necessary security service to thousands of factories all over the country on subsidised basis.

BGMEA is in the news for export demands only, and its PR is poor for public awareness about how things run internally, including service facilities to the lakhs of garment workers. The medical and the child day-care services, the overtime allowance, leave quota utilisation and other humanised information are not publicised.

Huge unethical profits will evaporate, according to the moral law of compensation; (how many crores of taka are spent annually by Bangladeshis for treatment abroad?). In the garment sector, QC is weak on staff services and relations. What role the insurance sector is playing in this huge industry? Tell the public about regulatory practices, enforced or voluntary. The image of the owners is rather negative. Opportunism will not last from the next year's open global market.