City Desk :
Speakers at a discussion urged industrial labourers to learn about their rights and unite in demand of their rights.
They also stressed the need for creating wider awareness on occupational safety and health among the workers and employers of the industrial sector in their workplaces. Ensuring better working conditions at factories is also important to reduce health risk of the workers and people leaving in the areas.
They said this while addressing the closing and certificate-giving ceremony of a five-day labour law and rights training workshop held in Rajshahi yesterday.
Directorate of Labour organized the training in Industrial Relation Institute where 42 labourers from various industries attended.
With Principal of the Institute Monirul Islam in the chair, Course Coordinator Alamgir Hossain, Lecturers Abul Bashar and Lutfor Rahman and a tea company manager Abul Hasnat spoke on the occasion.
“It is vital that the workers of the factories and industrial sector have access to information regarding the risks associated with the sector and knows the way to reduce the risk.
It is very important that we ensure the workers of the sector are consulted when we plan a programme for them to have the maximum impact. I hope this workshop will provide us with much needed insight of the sector,” said Monirul Islam.
He said need-based vocational training for the youths coming from poor families is very important but their post-training employment has become an urgent need for eradicating unemployment problem.
He viewed that the persons with technical education can contribute a lot to the country.
Technical education could be effective means of building competent and skilled human resources and its role is very vital for substantial and sustainable growth of national economy. Role of skilled people is also very important for earning more foreign remittance which is significant for country’s development, the speakers said.
Speakers at a discussion urged industrial labourers to learn about their rights and unite in demand of their rights.
They also stressed the need for creating wider awareness on occupational safety and health among the workers and employers of the industrial sector in their workplaces. Ensuring better working conditions at factories is also important to reduce health risk of the workers and people leaving in the areas.
They said this while addressing the closing and certificate-giving ceremony of a five-day labour law and rights training workshop held in Rajshahi yesterday.
Directorate of Labour organized the training in Industrial Relation Institute where 42 labourers from various industries attended.
With Principal of the Institute Monirul Islam in the chair, Course Coordinator Alamgir Hossain, Lecturers Abul Bashar and Lutfor Rahman and a tea company manager Abul Hasnat spoke on the occasion.
“It is vital that the workers of the factories and industrial sector have access to information regarding the risks associated with the sector and knows the way to reduce the risk.
It is very important that we ensure the workers of the sector are consulted when we plan a programme for them to have the maximum impact. I hope this workshop will provide us with much needed insight of the sector,” said Monirul Islam.
He said need-based vocational training for the youths coming from poor families is very important but their post-training employment has become an urgent need for eradicating unemployment problem.
He viewed that the persons with technical education can contribute a lot to the country.
Technical education could be effective means of building competent and skilled human resources and its role is very vital for substantial and sustainable growth of national economy. Role of skilled people is also very important for earning more foreign remittance which is significant for country’s development, the speakers said.
