This paper aims to improve our understanding the gap between existing law and real scenario relating to Industrial relations and the procedure of settlement of industrial dispute in Ready Made Garment (RMG) Sector of Bangladesh. The very object of this writing is to find out the reason behind the labour movements and the role of the employer in this situation. Though garment sector is a rising sector in Bangladesh. Most of the time it faces labour movements due to various inner and outer kind of reasons. The main object is to give a pen picture of present status of industrial relation and to put some general suggestions that can help to reduce the dispute in the readymade garment sectors of Bangladesh.
In Bangladesh the most important event in a women's life is marriage which is surrounded by the various financial transactions including primarily the religiously sanctioned dower. Added to the dower, the practice of dowry popularly known as 'Joutuk', demands made by the groom's side to the bride's side, have in the last few decades become a widespread practice in the society supported neither by state law nor personal laws, but apparently designed to strengthen traditional patriarchal assumptions and with the expansion of capitalist relations that help capital accumulation by men in Bangladesh. The dangerous scenario is that every year a number of women become the victims of violence for non fulfillment of dowry demand, which is caused the threatened to their lives as the law cannot eradicate the menace of dowry due to lack of proper enforcement. This paper is an attempt to indicate the severity of the dowry violence including the analysis of legal strategies to put on curb the dowry violence in Bangladesh.
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