GazipurMorsheda returned to a 14-hour shift.
Bangladesh’s new 120-day leave law does nothing once workers clock back in.
Factories above a headcount threshold must run creches by law, but enforcement, not statute, is the gap.
Her baby now waits for a grandmother to carry him to the factory twice daily.
How each outlet framed it
- Global Voices
- foregrounds gap between policy (extended leave) and practice (childcare inaccessible during 10-14 hour shifts, straining family networks)
Sources: Global Voices