BANGLADESH GARMENT OWNERS OFFER NEW MINIMUM WAGE, BUT WORKERS DEMAND MORE
July 1st, 2018
BANGLADESH’S garment owners and trade unions are far apart in the fraught ongoing minimum wage negotiations, proposing pay floors that are widely divergent.
The country’s clothing manufacturers have offered Bangladesh Taka BDT6,360 (USD76) as a minimum monthly wage for entry-level workers in their industry, up from the USD63 set in 2013.
Labour organisations have countered, however, proposing BDT12,020 (USD143) as a new minimum monthly rate.
The new proposals came on Monday (July 16) at the third-meeting of a minimum wage board, headed by a ...
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