Business Desk :
International Labour Organisation (ILO) has said the employment rate in Bangladesh and other countries in the region exceeded the global average and was expected to remain so in the coming years in view of government’s social protection measures.
“The regional unemployment rate (in Asia and Pacific countries including Bangladesh) is projected to remain at around 3.6 percent until 2020, below the global average,” the ILO said in its World Employment and Social Outlook:
Trends 2019 (WESO), released recently.
It said the global average of the unemployment rate was 5.6 percent while the figure was around 3.6 percent in Bangladesh and the other Asia and Pacific nations, said a media release.
ILO attributed Bangladesh’s better employment scenario to significant social protection measures while the countries with higher poverty rates lacked such measures.
The global labour watchdog, however, said structural transformation moved huge workers out of agriculture, but this could not create significant improvements in job quality in the region.
It found a large proportion of workers lacked job security, written employment contracts and income stability.
“Like many countries in the region, Bangladesh is facing a number of challenges related to job security, child labour, and equal and fair payment for women workers,” ILO Bangladesh Country Director Tuomo Poutiainen said coinciding with the release of the study.
He said if Bangladesh was to meet the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030 there was a need to ramp up its efforts on improving social protection, skills training and occupational safety and health.
International Labour Organisation (ILO) has said the employment rate in Bangladesh and other countries in the region exceeded the global average and was expected to remain so in the coming years in view of government’s social protection measures.
“The regional unemployment rate (in Asia and Pacific countries including Bangladesh) is projected to remain at around 3.6 percent until 2020, below the global average,” the ILO said in its World Employment and Social Outlook:
Trends 2019 (WESO), released recently.
It said the global average of the unemployment rate was 5.6 percent while the figure was around 3.6 percent in Bangladesh and the other Asia and Pacific nations, said a media release.
ILO attributed Bangladesh’s better employment scenario to significant social protection measures while the countries with higher poverty rates lacked such measures.
The global labour watchdog, however, said structural transformation moved huge workers out of agriculture, but this could not create significant improvements in job quality in the region.
It found a large proportion of workers lacked job security, written employment contracts and income stability.
“Like many countries in the region, Bangladesh is facing a number of challenges related to job security, child labour, and equal and fair payment for women workers,” ILO Bangladesh Country Director Tuomo Poutiainen said coinciding with the release of the study.
He said if Bangladesh was to meet the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030 there was a need to ramp up its efforts on improving social protection, skills training and occupational safety and health.
