Unilever Bangladesh Limited (UBL) and Unilever Consumer Care Limited (UCL) recently handed over two cheques for Tk 71.84 million respectively to the Ministry of Labour and Employment’s ‘Labour Welfare Foundation’ as its contribution to workers' share of profit.

UBL’s Company Secretary and Legal Director SM Rashed Quayum and Head of Corporate Affairs, Partnerships and Communications Shamima Akhter along with UCL’s Regulatory Affairs Head and Company Secretary, Mohammad Naharul Molla handed over the cheques to State Minister for Labour and Employment Ministry Begum Mannujan Sufian at the Secretariat, according to a press release.

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This fund promises to strengthen the government’s efforts to ensure the safety of workers and to help the workers and their families in case of any major disaster.

Labour and Employment Sakiun Nahar Begum and Director General BLWF (Bangladesh Labor Welfare Foundation) Begum Zebunnesa Karim (Additional Secretary), were also present at the Cheque Handover Ceremony.

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The press release said that since the beginning of the pandemic, Unilever has taken utmost care to safeguard its people working in factories and follow the top tier global protocol of Unilever and Bangladesh Government.

In addition to maintaining highest level of social distancing and mask compliance across its manufacturing operation, Unilever in Bangladesh has ensured physical barriers to ensure physical distancing in the common places like canteen and change room.

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Since the beginning of COVID-19 in Bangladesh Unilever has introduced dedicated transport facility for all its employees at factories, which follow strict social distance and diligently conduct regular sanitization of these vehicles’ multiple times in a day.

Apart from Unilever run immunity-boosting medical assistance programme, hygiene care kit for all employees including providing sanitization products for their homes in regular intervals and cover all employees for weekly COVID testing.

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For all these measures, Unilever in Bangladesh invested heavily in the last 18 months and have invested Tk 18 Crore to ensure safety of its people against COVID. Apart, as a responsible organization bears all the medical treatment costs of all its employees in this regard.