“The Joint Conclusions is all of what we discussed and agreed,” Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed said at the closing. The ‘Joint Conclusions’ recognised several areas of the Compact. These include:Recent increase in trade union registrations in Dhaka division, work towards the development of standard operating procedures or SOPs to better process applications for trade union registration, strengthening of the inspection division and formation of Remediation Coordination Cell. They stressed that “criminal complaints pending against the concerned partners need to be reviewed urgently to ensure due process of the law”. The ‘Joint Conclusions’ also encouraged private initiatives to remain engaged with the government and to renew their commitments to working for safer RMG factories in the coming years.

Source: bd News24 May 18, 2017 18:33 UTC