Readymade garment (RMG) workers staged demonstrations in the capital’s Manda area under Mughda police station demanding the implementation of the minimum wage scale fixed by the government.
During the demonstrations, the workers of Ethical Garments Factory protested “unethical” activities of the authority by depriving them from their logical payment.
Witnesses and police said some 2000 workers of the factory took to the streets in front of the factory around 7:30am instead of joining their workplace.
They paraded in the area, chanting slogans voicing their demands and protesting of factory authorities’ dilly-dallying in implementing the minimum wage scale.
The workers claimed that the factory authorities have been paying them a minimum wage of Tk4200 only instead of Tk5300 which was fixed by the labour ministry.
They said they were forced to come down to the road as the authorities did not pay attention to their repeated demand for the implementation the wage scale.
Earlier, the government fixed the minimum wage at Tk5300, which was to be implemented from December.
Confirming about the demonstration, Mughdah police station Officer-in-Charge Omar Faruq said: “Although the workers did not join their workplace for the protest, they were yet to get involved in any unruly act.”
He said they were talking to the factory authorities for a solution to the dispute.
