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  No wage revision for workers in 11 sectors for years

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 10:29pm on August 25, 2020

  The revision of minimum wages for the workers employed in 11 industrial sectors has remained pending for years although more than five years have passed...

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  July wage growth drops to 5.82pc

  Jasim Uddin | Updated at 10:50pm on August 19, 2020

  Wage growth in July dropped to 5.82 per cent from 5.90 per cent in June as a result of declining wages in all three sectors...

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  RMG workers lose Tk 4,250cr in wages in Mar-May: report

  Moinul Haque | Updated at 11:07pm on August 10, 2020

  Readymade garment workers in Bangladesh lost wages worth around $501 million (about Tk 4,250 crore) for three months, March to May, due to the coronavirus...

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  Govt sets rice mill workers’ minimum wage at Tk 7,810

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 10:33pm on August 09, 2020

  The government has set Tk 7,810 as the minimum monthly wage for the workers of country’s rice mill sector, increasing it by 41 per cent from...

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  Transport sector minimum wage hiked by 60pc

  Shahin Akhter | Updated at 12:42am on August 05, 2020

  The government has increased the monthly minimum wage of the private sector road transport workers by around 60 per cent after 10 years. The monthly...

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  Another Tk 3,000cr allocated for workers’ salary

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 01:41am on July 24, 2020

  The Bangladesh Bank asked all scheduled banks to disburse another Tk 3,000 crore as July wages for the workers of export-oriented industries. To this end,...

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  Int’l mechanism to compensate wage theft a need: experts

  Diplomatic Correspondent    | Updated at 01:12am on July 22, 2020

  Many governments and employers are using COVID-19 situation to force foreign workers to leave jobs and to fly to their homes penniless, international experts said...

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  Govt to review wages for workers of salt crushing, ayurvedic sectors

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 11:10pm on July 21, 2020

  The government has taken an initiative to review the minimum wages for the workers and employees in the country’s salt crushing and ayurvedic sectors. The...

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  Wages for May still unpaid in 1,004 factories: IP

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 01:01am on July 01, 2020

  Workers of 1,004 industrial units, out of 7,602, in six areas under the jurisdiction of Industrial Police across the country are yet to paid wages...

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  Apparel workers block road demanding wages

  Our Correspondent . Gazipur | Updated at 01:58am on June 27, 2020

  Several hundred readymade garment workers on Friday staged demonstration and blocked a road in Gazipur demanding wages and other allowances. Workers of Alif Casual Wear...