The more than 950,972 registered Rohingya men, women, and children in refugee
camps, who did not have access to formal schooling or livelihoods, were
vulnerable to forced labor and other exploitation, particularly by local criminal
networks.
See the Department of State’s Trafficking in Persons Report at
https://www.state.gov/trafficking-in-persons-report/.
c. Prohibition of Child Labor and Minimum Age for Employment
See the Department of Labor’s Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labor at
https://www.dol.gov/agencies/ilab/resources/reports/child-labor/findings and the
List of Goods Produced by Child Labor or Forced Labor at
https://www.dol.gov/agencies/ilab/reports/child-labor/list-of-goods.
d. Discrimination with Respect to Employment and Occupation
The labor law prohibits wage discrimination based on sex or disability, but it does
not prohibit other discrimination based on sex, disability, social status, caste,
sexual orientation, or similar factors. The constitution prohibits adverse
discrimination by the state based on religion, race, caste, sex, or place of birth and
expressly extends that prohibition to government employment; it allows
affirmative action programs for the benefit of disadvantaged populations. The law
does not include a penalty for discrimination. The government did not effectively
enforce the law, and the penalties were less than those for similar crimes. Few
sought recourse, and penalties were rarely applied against violators.
Women made up more than 50 percent of the total workforce in the garment
industry according to official statistics. Even in the garment sector, however,
women faced discrimination in employment and occupation. Women were
generally underrepresented in supervisory and management positions and generally
earned less than male counterparts even when performing similar functions. The
laws prohibiting adolescents from participating in dangerous work specify women
are equal to adolescents and therefore prohibited from working with hazardous
machinery, cleaning machinery in motion, and working underground or
underwater.
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