RANA Plaza Arrangement: The day April 24th 2013, 1134 people were killed and hundreds were injured when collapsed the Rana Plaza building in Savar, Bangladesh. To coordinated and for systematic approach to ensure the victims, their families and dependents would not have to endure ill-health and financial hardship the representatives from the government, the garment industry both locally
and internationally, trade unions and non-governmental organizations,
came together to form the Rana Plaza Coordination Committee. The UN agency ILO acting as a neutral chair. The purposes of the ILO was to develop a comprehensive
and independent process that would deliver support to the victims,
their families and dependants in a predictable manner consistent with
international labor standards. This process was agreed in late 2013,
and established through an agreement known as "The Arrangement".
The arrangement describes themselves in the way that "The Arrangement provides a single approach for establishing
the amount of financial support and level of medical care to be
provided to the victims of the disaster, consistent with international
labour standards concerning employment injury benefits (ILO Convention
No.121). It is in the form of a practical agreement, signed by all major
stakeholders, which lays out steps for the development and
implementation of such an approach. It has been signed by leading buyers
(Primark, Loblaw, Bonmarche, El Corte Ingles), the Bangladesh Ministry
of Labour, Bangladesh Employers’ Federation (BEF), Bangladesh Garment
Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA), IndustriALL Bangladesh
National Council, Bangladesh Institute for Labour Studies (BILS),
Industriall Global Union and Clean Clothes Campaign."
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