UNB, Dhaka :US Ambassador in Dhaka Dan W Mozena on Thursday said the defiant owners of the readymade garment (RMG) who are ‘unwilling’ to meet the international safety and labour rights standards should ‘close and leave’ their businesses to keep the vibrant export-earning sector free from further risk.”I think they’ve no right to make their profits by exploiting their workers, thus putting the entire sector at risk as inevitable future Tazreen Fashions and Rana Plaza disasters destroy the Bangladesh Brand,” he said.The US diplomat made the remark at the closing session of a two-day training programme in a city hotel at a time when Bangladesh is struggling to get back special trade benefit under the GSP scheme in the US market. International Labour Organization (ILO) and Department of Labour arranged the training session on Bangladesh Labour Law focusing on the 2013 amendment.Joint Secretary, Ministry of Labour and Employment, M Faizur Rahman, ILO Country Director Srinivas B Reddy and BGMEA Vice President Reaz-Bin-Mahmood Sumon, among others, spoke on the occasion.The US Ambassador, however, said some factory owners are fully engaged in supporting transformation of their individual factories and of the sector overall.
