There are actions that can be taken to prevent these companies and corporations from infringing on Bangladeshi garment workers’ basic human rights. People must empathize with garment manufacturers that are producing much of the clothes that are worn by the entire world because they are barely surviving without having their proper needs being met. These corporations that are forcing garment workers to work are failing to comprehend that these people have households and people that need to be taken care of. Depriving them of their earned and deserved wages should be criminally punished by law and these corporations should be held accountable for their actions. Companies should pay repercussions for their actions of these inhospitable working conditions and paying little wages. People all around the world can boycott retail companies such as Gap, Zara, Levi’s (have a significant amount of consumers/ customers to not purchase from them in response to get these companies to be alert and respond to their concerns). People may also actively share this information over and over (flood their feed) on social media platforms so that these companies cannot escape it. Awareness should be brought to policymakers/ elected officials to hear the urgency of this matter and to hear this concern so that the Bangladeshi government and retail companies that are tied in conjunction to paying wages to these workers are properly paying them a living wage. In response to the coronavirus, these garment workers should also receive subsidies from the government. And if there is no progression, then it would be necessary to urge the UN to intervene and make it punishable by law to have these workers not paid/ underpaid under these rigorous conditions as an essential business (while also making their working conditions safe).
We have seen that because of the ignorance of Bangladeshi government and Western retail companies, Bangladeshi garment workers are struggling to make ends meet and are . The situation calls for government officials to take action to help these vulnerable citizens, for the Western retail companies be held liable for the horrid working conditions and for them to pay reparations or institute higher wages. It is Western retail companies that possess factories in Bangladesh and they should work alongside the Bangladeshi government to instill safe working laws and a higher pay to Bangladeshi garment workers in order for them to survive, work effectively and contribute to the economy without being harmed.