Dhaka, April 22 -- The Labour Reform Commission has called for recognition and legal protection for over 80 million both institutional and informal workers in Bangladesh while recommending safer work environments, job security, and fair wages.

The commission also proposed reforms to allow workers to form trade unions and advocated the establishment of a National Wage Commission to ensure minimum wages.

To ease industrial unrest, the commission's report suggests setting up a fund capable of paying two months' wages to workers in export-oriented sectors.

The recommendations include extending legal recognition to migrant workers, along with rickshaw pullers, day labourers, fishermen, street vendors and domestic workers.

One of the stakeh...