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  Minimum wage may halve wage inequality: ILO

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 12:09am on June 16, 2021

  Extending the minimum wage to domestic workers could contribute to reducing wage inequality by 51.8 per cent in Bangladesh, according to an International Labour Organisation...

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  Tea workers must have a living wage

  | Updated at 12:00am on June 16, 2021

  THE proposal of the Minimum Wage Board to set the daily minimum wage for tea workers at Tk 117, an amount that the workers have...

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  Tk 117 as daily minimum wage proposed for tea garden workers

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 01:29am on June 15, 2021

  The minimum wage board has proposed Tk 117 as the daily minimum wage for the tea garden workers, ignoring the proposals made by the labour union...

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  Bangladesh workers demand wage, allowance before May 10

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 09:04pm on May 07, 2021

  Leaders of different labour organisations on Friday at separate statements called on the government to take initiatives to pay wage and festival allowance of the...

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  Venezuela triples wages still not enough to buy food

  Agence France-Presse . Caracas | Updated at 10:50am on May 02, 2021

  Venezuela nearly tripled its minimum wage on Saturday but inflation is so outrageous that that amount of money will not even buy a kilo of...

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  Bangladesh asks factories to pay wage, festival allowance by May 10

  Moinul Haque | Updated at 11:30pm on April 29, 2021

  The government on Thursday asked factory owners to pay wages and festival allowances to their workers by May 10, ahead of Eid-ul-Fitr. The law enforcement...

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  Government must stop wage theft, plan migrant worker reintegration

  | Updated at 12:00am on April 09, 2021

  WAGE theft, the denial of wages or employment benefits, of migrant workers has come to be an issue of concern since the COVID-19 outbreak. Millions...

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  Migrant rights activists call to stop wage theft

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 01:01am on April 07, 2021

  Migrant rights activists and academics at an international conference on Tuesday urged that government agencies, UN bodies, companies and the rights bodies should come forward...

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  RMG workers face ‘wage theft’ in July-Dec: report

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 11:39pm on March 14, 2021

  Sixteen major global fashion brands, including H&M, Nike and Levi’s, recorded profits of at least $10 billion in July-December of 2020 alone while millions of...

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  Government to review wages for shrimp sector workers

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 11:14pm on February 20, 2021

  The government has taken an initiative to review the minimum wages for workers and employees in the country’s shrimp sector. The labour ministry in a...