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                              Bangladesh’s Cabinet Approves Changes to Labor Laws

NEW DELHI – Bangladesh’s cabinet approved changes to the nation’s labor laws on Monday that officials say will expand benefits for garment workers and make it easier to form trade unions. The steps came a day after the government promised to push for higher pay in an export clothing industry with the lowest wages in the world.

The new initiatives are partly in response to outrage over conditions in the country’s garment sector after the April 24 collapse of a garment-factory building, Rana Plaza, in Savar, an industrial suburb of Dhaka, the nation’s capital. By Monday afternoon, at least 1,127 people were confirmed to have died in the Rana Plaza collapse, a number that could still rise, in what is now considered the deadliest disaster in the history of the garment industry.

 

 

           As British Prime Minister Visits Washington, His Party Splits Over European Union

LONDON : His visit to the White House overshadowed by toxic divisions at home over Europe, Prime Minister David Cameron of Britain won the support of President Obama on Monday in seeking to calm a clamor within the Conservative Party for further and faster moves toward an exit from the European Union.

peaking after hosting talks with Mr. Cameron, Mr. Obama urged Britons not to give up on their membership in the union without first seeking to improve it. “You probably want to see if you can fix what is broken in a very important relationship before you break it off  that makes sense to me,” Mr. Obama said, while stressing that any decision was for the British people.

creado por: rodolfo Cuma