Garment workers to get minimum salary Tk 8,000
Published : 13 Sep 2018, 18:47
Sahos Desk
State Minister for Labour and Employment Mujibul Haque Chunnu today formally announced Tk 8,000 as the minimum salary for garment workers.
“The new wage structure will come into effect from December,” the minister made the announcement after a meeting at his ministry office in Dhaka this afternoon.
Ministry of Labour and Employment formed the wage board for the garment workers in January of this year to avert unrest.
As per the previous wage board, the RMG workers are being paid Tk 5,300 as the minimum monthly salary.
Chunnu said 51 percent salary was hiked from the previous wage structure and all the RMG workers will get Tk 8,000 as monthly salary from December.
Source: thedailystar