Bangladesh 34.4 → 39.8 (Δ +5.4): ITUC 10-Worst Exit — First Since 2017 — November 2025 Labour Reforms Verified

The explicit naming of sycophancy as a design flaw by a multi-state enforcement body is analytically significant (first time a state enforcement coalition has characterized AI behavioral architecture as a consumer protection concern) but pre-adjudication discount holds: ACC and AWR sub-threshold accumulation documented. Apple's Towson unionized-store closure ULP charge is a filed allegation — no adjudicated NLRB ruling yet. The benchmark holds at 59.4; a single pending ULP charge does not move an otherwise stable Functional entity. Amazon's NLRB adjudicated finding (June 2026, illegal firing of San Francisco union organizer) is a distinct case: it is an adjudicated NLRB determination, not a pending allegation. This reinforces the Critical floor at 12.8 — not by moving the score (no new delta) but by confirming the ACC dimension evidence base is robust and adjudicated. The Feb 2026 EEOC pregnancy-discrimination finding adds a second adjudicated thread. The pattern across the three entities illustrates the framework: pre-adjudication discounts allegations; adjudicated findings reinforce floors.

Under the benchmark's victim-attribution convention, harm inflicted upon an entity by an external aggressor does not lower the victim entity's compassion score — the harm is priced under the perpetrator (Russia, 0.0 floor-confirmed). Ukraine holds at 50.0 Functional. This is now the second consecutive cycle in which a Russia-inflicted harm event against Ukraine is correctly attributed and does not move Ukraine's composite. The convention has been applied consistently since the benchmark's first Ukraine assessment in the current cycle series.

The US$220M international pledge and active WHO/Africa CDC-led response are a mild positive — the international community is responding at scale. DRC confirms at 2.3. The externally-led response is a mild ACC-dimension positive that cannot raise a score already near the floor; DRC's own governance capacity constraints are priced in the existing composite. The July natural peak window (2-6 weeks away) and contact tracing below 20% remain the primary risk vectors. A displacement camp transmission cluster (confirmed June 12, prior cycle) continues.

No composite delta proposal is possible without an established index baseline. The lawsuit is pre-adjudication — a filed allegation, not a finding. The pipeline flags this for potential index addition; scoring will require: (1) entity inclusion in the AI-labs index under an agreed slug; (2) a first-baseline assessment; (3) adjudication or other primary-source evidence beyond a filed complaint. The lawsuit is documented here as an index-gap flag, not a scored event.

• Bangladesh at proposed 39.8 is the benchmark's first positive South Asia movement in the current June cycle series — a rare direction-reversal in a region with an otherwise static or downward assessment arc
• The conservative calibration (+5.4, staying well within Developing) reflects the benchmark's asymmetric evidence standard: reforms must be verified through an international monitoring body (ITUC in this case) before credit is awarded, and the reform must close a structural gap (the 20-worker threshold), not just announce intent
• The SEZ exclusion gap means the upgrade's ceiling is visible from the outset: a second legislative tranche covering SEZ workers would be the natural next scoring trigger
• Bangladesh illustrates the benchmark's structural story about the Developing band: it is not a static score category but an active measurement zone where incremental reform generates measurable movement without requiring a band-crossing event

• OpenAI (42-state subpoena, pre-adjudication): ACC/AWR sub-threshold accumulation at -1.6 conservative reconstruction; 27.5 holds. The sycophancy-as-design-flaw framing is analytically novel but not yet scorable
• Apple (Towson ULP, pre-adjudication charge filed): single pending charge does not move a Functional entity at 59.4; published score holds clean
• Amazon (NLRB adjudicated finding, June 2026): adjudicated determination reinforces the Critical floor at 12.8 — distinct from the pre-adjudication discipline because this evidence has cleared the adjudication threshold
• The three cases together constitute the clearest single-cycle illustration of the benchmark's evidence hierarchy: investigation < allegation < finding < adjudicated determination, each corresponding to a distinct scoring weight