Advocate Jafrul Hasan Sharif
Advocate Jafrul Hasan Sharif has over 17 years of experience, working in the field of corporate legal service, labor matter, compliance audit as a lawyer. Mr. Sharif has vast experience in resolving labor disputes, legal implication of human resource management, labor compliance in the industries and alternative dispute resolution. Mr. Sharif has expertise on dealing labor, other civil and criminal cases in the lower and upper Judiciary. Mr. Sharif has Master’s and Bachelor’s degree in Law from the University of Dhaka and is an enrolled Lawyer of Bangladesh. He has completed his post graduation in personnel management in Bangladesh Institute of Management.
He is also a certified lead auditor for SA 8000. Since January 2007 Mr. Sharif is also working as a regular resource person of Bangladesh Institute of Management (BIM) and Civil Service College (CSC) as a legal and labor law expert. He is also the member of National Occupational Health and Safety Council, an advisory council under the supervision of Ministry of Labor and Employment of Bangladesh.
He was a member of the labor law and policy reform committee of the Labor and Employment Ministry of the Government of Bangladesh. He drafted the Bangladesh Labor Act 2006, National Labor Policy of Bangladesh 2012, Bangladesh Labor (amendment) Act 2013, Bangladesh labor Rule 2015 as a core member of the drafting committee. He also reviewed and supported the Labor and Employment Ministry to reform upcoming BEPZA Labor Act 2016.
He also contributed for developing social compliance training module for GIZ. He also worked as a GIZ consultant for developing social compliance standard for RMG industries in Bangladesh. He also works as labor expert to conduct Bangladesh Labor Assessment for US Mission under the US State Department in 2008 and 2014.
Currently Mr. Sharif is a practicing lawyer of Bangladesh, senior partner and chairman of Attorneys, a legal and management consulting firm.