Nobel laureate and Grameen Communications Chairman Dr Muhammad Yunus and three others have been sued in a criminal lawsuit for violating labour laws.
The Department of Inspection for Factories and Establishments filed the lawsuit with a labour court in Dhaka on Sunday (Jan 5). 

Plaintiff Tarikul Islam, an inspector of the department, said on Thursday (Jan 9) that the court has fixed Jan 12 for hearing the matter.

The three others sued are Grameen Communications Managing Director Nazneen Sultana and Deputy General Manager Gauri Shankar and Director A Hai Khan. 

According to the case documents, an inspection by the department to Grameen Communications on Oct 10 last year found as many as ten violations of the labour laws.



Prior to that on Apr 30, the department found the same violations and issued a warning to fix those.
The violations include no appointment letters, photo IDs and service books for workers, working hours not being approved by the inspector, yearly and half-yearly returns not being filed, workers not cashing in half of the earned leave, the company’s appointment policies not approved by the inspector general, not maintaining logs for special duties during holidays and not forming a panel for safety issues.