Six-member wage board announced to determine new wages for garment workers

The Labour Minister said the decision to form this board was taken after a long four-hour discussion on Saturday (31 October) with labour leaders and representatives of the garment factory owners' associations BGMEA and BKMEA.

​It may be noted that garment workers have been protesting continuously for several days demanding a minimum monthly wage of Tk 30,000. Even today, Sunday, the day the wage board was announced, they protested by blocking roads in Mirpur of the capital and in Gazipur.