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Bangladesh: Garment manufacturing workers protest for implementation of new minimum wage structure for textile workers
Credit Musfiq Tajwar, Solidarity Center
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The workers found that some of them were given wage according to the new wage scale while some others were not given the increased wages terming them ‘textile mill workers’, he said...
The government in November set Tk 12,500 as minimum wage payable from January, changing the previous amount of Tk 8,000...
Newtex Design Ltd chairman Reaz Ahmed Khan said that the government declared minimum wage for garment sector but not for textile.
‘We gave wages to garment workers but did not give to textile workers according to new scale,’ he said, adding that this is why the management cannot be blamed for the unrest.