First and current law: 1998.
Type of program: Targeted social assistance system.
Special system for public-sector employees.
Note: Unless otherwise noted, this information is more than 8 years old.
Low-income citizens aged 57 and older.
Insured person: None.
Employer: None.
Government: Total cost.
Aged 57, resident in Bangladesh, and selected for eligibility.
Old-age pension: A monthly pension of 120 takas (July 2002), equal to 10% of average income.
The government is responsible for administering the social assistance program.
First Law: 1939.
Current Laws: 1950 and 1965.
Type of program: Social insurance system providing cash and medical benefits.
Cash sickness benefits: Employees of factories in manufacturing industries employing 10 or more workers and employees of shops and establishments of 5 or more workers.
Exclusion: Clerical staff.
Cash maternity benefits: Employed women.
Medical benefits: Medical facilities provided by some employers in the public and private sectors through dispensaries in their establishments; workers can also use general hospital facilities run by the government.
Insured person: None.
Employer: Total cost.
Government: Provides hospital facilities.
Cash maternity benefits: Nine months' service with the employer by the expected date of childbirth.
Sickness benefit: 50% of wages for factory workers and 100% of wages for workers in shops, establishments, and large factories, for up to 14 days a year.
Maternity benefit: Cash payment, depending on prior wages, for 6 weeks before and 6 weeks after childbirth.
Where medical facilities are not provided, a medical allowance of 100 takas a month is paid to workers.
Ministry of Labor and Manpower.
Public Health Service.
First Law: 1923.
Current laws: 1980 and 1982.
Type of program: Employer-liability system for accidental injuries and 34 listed occupational diseases.
Employees of railways, factories with 10 or more workers, and estate and dock employees.
Exclusions: Clerical staff, and workers earning 1,200 takas or more a month.
Insured person: None.
Employer: Total cost.
Government: None.
Work injury benefits: There is a 4-day waiting period.
100% of wages for the first 2 months, 2/3 of wages for the next 2 months, and half of wages for subsequent months of disability or for 1 year, whichever is shorter.
Between 10,000 takas and 30,000 takas a month, depending on the insured's monthly wage, payable for up to a year of disability.
Between 8,000 takas and 21,000 takas depending on the insured's monthly wage.
Ministry of Labor and Manpower.
Commissioner of Workmen's Compensation.
First and current law: 1965.
Labor Employment Act (1965) provides a termination benefit, a retrenchment and layoff benefit, and a benefit for discharge from service on the grounds of ill health.
Workers in shops and commercial and industrial establishments.
Insured person: None.
Employer: Total cost.
Government: None.
Monthly rated permanent employees receive half of the average basic wage for 120 days (plus 1 month's salary for each year of service); casual workers, for 60 days (plus a lump-sum payment of 14 days' wages for each year of service); and temporary workers, for 30 days.
Ministry of Labor and Manpower.
