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The legal system of Bangladesh does not directly acknowledge industrial killing in the form of penal offenses and thus is not equipped with a solid legal avenue to ensure justice for the victims. This article attempts to discuss industrial killing in Bangladesh through four particular incidents, the current domestic framework for preventing industrial killings, and common law countries' legislations as best practices. Also, it reminds the state obligation under the provisions of international law. This qualitative study uses applied techniques from the professional constituency that deal with law reform research (socio-legal research/ "law in context") from a labor rights lens. This study finds that recurring events of industrial killings come with a manifold threat to labor rights. The most immediate risk it poses is that it clashes with the workers' right to life. Therefore, the recommendation is highly focused on the obligation under international law. It also focuses on legislative changes in punishing the offenders involved in industrial killings as part of its progressive realization of the duty to respect, protect and fulfill human rights obligations.

Given the increase in remote working due to the social distancing requirements as part of the response to the Covid-19 Pandemic, the variable of work-from-home has become more salient in the business community. The existing literature squarely places remote working as an antecedent to employee perceptions of Organizational Justice throughout many industries. The same literature presents work from home in a positive frame of reference in a pre-pandemic world. However, in the Covid-19 environment, many perceptions have changed regarding employment. Likely overall perceptions regarding work from home have also shifted because more people engage in the activity. We argue that perceptions of work from home through the frame of reference found in the literature of Organizational Justice have shifted to be more negative. To study this phenomenon, we gathered social media data in comments from a work discussion forum on the Reddit website. We coded the data with an a priori codeset and assigned dummy variables for analysis. The dataset was analyzed via a five-way Factorial ANOVA examining the influences of the four independent variables of Organizational Justice (Distributive, Procedural, Interpersonal, and Informational Justice) and the temporal occurrence of Covid-19 on the sentimental polarity of comments surrounding the topic of work from home. Our findings indicated that Informational Justice significantly contributes to more negative sentiment regarding work-from-home. Additionally, when Distributive, Interpersonal, and Informational Justice and Distributive and Informational Justice interact, sentimental polarity grows more negative for work from home. Discussion of results, implications for practice, and limitations presented.

With the unstable work environment brought about by high levels of turnover and employee burnout, many firms have sought fresh human capital to fill critical roles. The strain of having to complete job duties in an understaffed environment made remaining employees feel as though they are not being paid enough to do more work for the same pay. However, incoming workers required higher wages to match market demands. Owing to the existence of pay secrecy policies having the potential of making existing workers feel ostracized because elements of seniority, loyalty, and distrust of their employers, a cycle of cynicism and deeper senses of ostracism likely are occurring. With the support of the literature surrounding workplace ostracism, pay secrecy policies, and cynicism, we sampled general workers in the United States (n = 372) to determine if cynicism had the potential to further impact the negative relationship of perceptions of pay secrecy policies and workplace ostracism. Our findings suggest cynicism moderates the proposed relationship at average and high levels indicating that cynicism will buffer feelings of ostracism in an environment where there are negative perceptions of pay secrecy. We discuss how our findings add to the literature through being the first study to explore our hypothesized relationship. Furthermore, we add to understanding of how the aging workforce likely is experiencing cynicism and ostracism associated with pay secrecy policies. Beyond discussing our findings, we give suggestions for future research.