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  Labour bodies stage demo rejecting new wage for RMG workers

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 12:05am on September 15, 2018

  Garment labour organisations on Friday came down hard on the government for fixing Tk 8,000 as the monthly minimum wage for garment workers claiming that...

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  Overseas employers asked to increase wages of garment workers from Bangladesh

  Md Owasim Uddin Bhuyan       | Updated at 12:39am on September 10, 2018

  Overseas employers have been asked to offer higher wages if they were serious about recruiting skilled apparel workers from Bangladesh....

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  RMG factory owners want govt benefits for workers’ wage hike

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 12:05am on September 10, 2018

  Garment factory owners on Sunday said that the government must give them tax or cash incentives as the wage of the workers would be raised....

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  45pc dearness allowance for journalists approved

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 07:35pm on August 29, 2018

  Finance minister AMA Muhith has approved a proposal to confer 45 per cent dearness allowance to journalists and employees working in the newspapers and news...

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  Workers of many RMG units get no festival allowances, wages

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 12:05am on August 21, 2018

  Workers of many of the garment factories across the country recived no festival allownces and wages till Monday evening, according to Industrial Police sources....

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  Over 500 industrial units at risk of unrest over wages, find Industrial police

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 10:26pm on August 13, 2018

  Over 500 industrial units across the country are vulnerable to labour unrest over payment of wages and festival allowances to workers before Eid-ul-Azha, according to...

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  Garment labour bodies to besiege wage board office on August 5

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 01:51am on July 30, 2018

  Garment workers’ organisations will besiege the wage board office in Dhaka on August 5 demanding Tk 16,000 as minimum monthly wage for the ready-made garment...

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  Owners offer Tk 6,360 while workers’ rep for Tk 12,020

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 12:30am on July 17, 2018

  The garment factory owners’ representative to the minimum wage board for reviewing wages of readymade garment workers on Monday proposed Tk 6,360 as minimum monthly...

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  HC questions formation of 9th wage board for journalists

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 03:13am on July 02, 2018

  The High Court on Sunday asked the government to explain in two weeks why the ninth wage board for journalists and newspapers employees would not...

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  Many RMG owners fail to keep pledge over wage payment

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 12:29am on June 12, 2018

  Many of the readymade garment factory owners in the country have failed to keep their pledge of paying wages for the month of May to...