institutions, gaps between the actual labour market and courses offered and inconsistent training quality need closer attention and the Commission would urge relevant authorities to take necessary action to address these gaps. 40. Recommendations: ✓ Full enforcement of existing labour law 2006 (amended 2013) towards achieving international labour standard with focus on health, safety, security, welfare and creating harassment and intimidation free working environments. ✓ Amend Labour law for inclusion of all categories of labours (informal) under the protection of law. Review sector wise labour wage standard with the objective of reducing income disparity. The Government should work together with the private sector to find mechanism to make the private sector accountable for their earnings and the standardized sector wise wages. ✓ Setting up national minimum compensation standards to ensure implementation of fair and transparent compensation processes. ✓ Protect labour rights of private sectors employees including professionals, engineers and others. In addition, a mechanism should be in place to address the issue relating to the bonds signed in the private sector jobs by the employees for years tantamounting to forced labour. ✓ Take measures to ensure that individuals from so-called lower castes are not relegated to caste based employment e.g. cleaning, and have equal opportunities to various employment both in public and private sectors with a reserved quota for them subject to fulfilling required criteria ✓ Ensure reserved quota for persons with disability in the public as well as private sectors for the persons with disabilities and skills development programmes should be introduced to benefit and create opportunities for the persons with disabilities. ✓ Ensure safe childcare facilities, in garment factories. ✓ Strengthen the implementation of labour laws by establishing labour inspections, including in the informal sector. ✓ Enforce the existing national legislation to eliminate child labour, including in the informal sector and family businesses, is in full compliance with international standards in terms of age, working hours, working conditions, education and health, and to ensure the full protection of children against all forms of sexual, physical and psychological harassment. Adopt programmes to reintegrate into mainstream education children who have been involved in labour. ✓ While strengthening the domestic polices it is also vital that the country remains aligned with international standards. Thus, it is the Commission’s view that Bangladesh should consider ratifying the Domestic Workers Convention 2011 (No. 189). ✓ Enhance effectiveness of the Trade Union as the Trade Union Registration Process, has been simplified by the Government by virtue of the amendment of the Labour Act, 2006 in 2013. 13