Recent Unrest in the RMG Sector of Bangladesh: Is this an Outcome of Poor Labour Practices?

The RMG sector of Bangladesh has experienced disputes and violent protest by the workers in recent times. Thisstudy explores the reasons for recent unrest in the garment sector. Since managers are mainly responsible forapplying human resource practices, this paper has given particular attention to their views on recent attitudechanges of workers. Results show that mutual understanding among workers and managers is absent in the RMGsector. This study also states that high-work load, poor behaviour of line managers, low skills and low wage ratesare the notable reasons for high job turnover and social unrest. Poor relationship between workers andsupervisors is the main source of conflict. This study finds that there is growing demand for work life balanceamong the workers of RMG…