BANGLADESH LABOUR ACT 2006 - ACT 25 & 26
25. Special provisions
relating to fine : (1) No fine exceeding one-tenth of the wages payable to
a worker in respect of a wage-period may be imposed in any one wage-period on
any worker.
(2) No fine shall be imposed on a
worker who is under the age of fifteen years.
(3) No fine imposed on any worker
shall be recovered from him by installments or after the expiry of sixty days
from the day on which it was imposed.
(4) Every fine shall be deemed to
have been imposed or the day of the commission of the offence in respect of
which it was imposed.
(5) All fines and all
realizations there of shall be recorded in a prescribed register to be kept by
the employer and all such realizations shall be speeded only to such purposes
beneficial to the workers employed in the establishment.
26. Termination of employment
by employers otherwise than by dismissal, etc. : (i) The employment of a
permanent worker may be terminated by the employer, otherwise, than in the manner
provided else-where in this chapter, by giving to him in writing-
(a) one hundred- and twenty-days’
notice, if he is a monthly rated worker;
(b) sixty days’ notice, in case
of other worker.
(2) The employment of a temporary
worker may be terminated by the employer, otherwise than in the manner provided
elsewhere in this chapter, and if it is not due to the completion, cessation, abolition
or discontinuance of the temporary work for which he was appointed, by giving
to him in writing-
(a) thirty days’ notice, if he is
a monthly rated worker;
(b) fourteen days’ notice, in
case of other worker.
(3) Where an employer intends to
terminate the employment of a worker without any notice, he may do so by paying
to the worker, wages in lieu of the notice, which is enquired to be given under
subsection (1) or (2), as the case may be.
(4) Where the employment of a
permanent worker is terminated under this section, he shall be paid by the
employer compensation at the rate of thirty day’s wages for every completed
year of service or gratuity, if any, whichever is higher, in addition to any
other benefit to which he may be entitled under this Act.
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