Maternity Benefit for Women worker in Bangladesh Background & Justification of the study: This report will be prepared as a requirement of Post Graduate Diploma in Personnel Management (PGDPM) Course at Bangladesh Institute of Management. The primary goal of the report is to implement the theoretical knowledge to the real life scenario with an attachment to any organization. Bangladesh is a developing country in south Asian region with 130 million of people. According to Labour Force Survey 2006 of the Bangladesh bureau of statistics (BBS), the total estimated civilian labour forces of the country is 60.3 million and among them 37.81% are female. Women are increasingly entering into job market mainly in readymade ferments and allied sector, tea garden, NGOs, health care services, food processing industry, export processing zone, services sectors and commercial enterprises and informal sector i.e. construction, agriculture etc. In Bangladesh the root of social security system and laws are based upon rules and regulation introduced by the British colonial regime. There is no specific national policy at present on safety – net issue and very little discussion took place in society on this regard. One of the important safety-net issue for all working women is maternity benefit right. But, in Bangladesh the majority of the women worker are deprived from this right for various reason such as the, weakness of relevant rule/acts, lack of enforcement, 1
