Health and safety rights in work place for women and children: an analysis on labour law of Bangladesh

Abstract

This thesis aims to review the effectiveness of Bangladesh Labor Act,2006 in trems of ensuring the occupational health and safety rights for women and children.Women employees are particularly susceptible to a variety of risks, frequent catastrophes, and negative occupational health consequences. On the other hand, a lot of children are sadly losing their childhood because they are continually hurt in the struggle to survive and provide for their families. To address this issues, Bangladesh has implemented a number of steps, including a legal framework. The Bangladesh Labour Act of 2006 has a number of clauses designed to address and resolve this issues. This thesis main concern will be to analyze the effectiveness of the Labour Act of Bangladesh for women and children with the example of case studies and case laws. This thesis will also focus on the reasons behind non-application of health and safety related laws for children, adolescents and women workers including the Reasons of not eliminating child labour in Bangladesh Besides this, in this thesis the loopholes of the Bangladesh Labor Act,2006 will be find out . Furthermore, finally findings of this thesis and recommendations to overcome the challenges regarding the concern issues will be discussed.