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  Low basic wage behind RMG labour unrest: leaders

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 12:00am on December 24, 2018

  Labour leaders at a meeting with department of inspection for factories and establishments officials on Sunday said that extremely low basic wage and uncertainty over...

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  Fashion workers urge H&M to deliver living wage

  Reuters. Phnom Penh | Updated at 02:34am on December 19, 2018

  In an industry riddled with poor health, abuse and labour exploitation, Yim Srey Neang and her colleagues are pleased to have garment factory jobs that...

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  Malaysia proposes 20pc cut from expatriate workers’ wages

  Md Owasim Uddin Bhuyan | Updated at 12:40am on December 16, 2018

  The Malaysian human resources ministry in a proposal asked employers to deduct 20 per cent of the basic wage of the expatriate workers to discourage...

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  Govt to address loopholes in new RMG wage structure after polls: minister

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 12:00am on December 16, 2018

  The government on Saturday announced that the inconsistency, if any, in the newly announced wage structure for the readymade garment workers would be solved after...

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  Worker’s wage issues need to be sorted out to stop unrest

  | Updated at 12:00am on December 15, 2018

  LABOUR unrest forced the shutdown of at least 70 apparel factories at Ashulia and in Gazipur and Narayanganj on Thursday....

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  Govt must shore up investments issues to up real wage growth

  | Updated at 12:00am on November 28, 2018

  REAL wage growth in Bangladesh, as the Global Wage Report 2018–19 that the International Labour Organisation launched on Monday shows, declined in 2017, after registering...

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  Govt announces Tk 8,000 as minimum wage

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 12:44am on November 27, 2018

  The government has finally announced Tk 8,000 as the minimum wage for readymade garment workers as per the recommendations of the minimum wage board.The labour ministry...

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  Bangladesh wage growth drops in ’17

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 12:00am on November 27, 2018

  Growth in real wage in Bangladesh declined in 2017 after rising in two consecutive years, according to Global Wage Report 2018-19 published by International Labour...

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  Apparel sector wage board must review objections

  | Updated at 12:00am on November 01, 2018

  THE government and apparel factory owners have often ignored rights of the workers and their economic survival, the latest being the most recent wage board...

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  Wage board finalises recommendation of RMG workers’ wages in all grades

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 12:53am on October 12, 2018

  The minimum wage board, formed to review the wages for the readymade garment workers, has finalised its recommendations setting minimum wages for the workers of...