UNB, Dhaka :
Director-General of the International Labour Organization (ILO) Guy Ryder arrives here on Saturday on a four-day visit.
During his stay here, Ryder will take part in the Ninth GFMD Summit Meeting: ‘Migration that works for Sustainable Development for All: Towards a Transformative Migration Agenda’.
He will hold discussions with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali and Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Nurul Islam,
State Minister for Labour and Employment Md Mujibul Haque, representatives of workers’ and employers organisations as well as development partners.
Ryder will address the inaugural ceremony of the Dhaka Summit on Skills, Employability, and Decent Work 2016 which forms part of the ILO’s Future of Work initiative, said an ILO official.
He will join the launch of a new ILO project funded by Sweden and Demark that aims to build social dialogue and harmonious industrial relations in the Bangladesh’s readymade garment industry.
An agreement will also be signed during his visit on a new skill development programme funded by the European Union as well as a memorandum of intent between the government of Bangladesh, donors and ILO to collaborate on a second phase of ILO’s programme to improve working conditions in the RMG sector funded by Canada, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.
