Govt fixes Tk 8,000 minimum wage for RMG workers

The government of Bangladesh has fixed Tk 8,000 from 5,300 minimum wage for the workers who are working in the country’s readymade garment (RMG) sector.

State Minister for Labour and Employment Mujibul Haque Chunnu announced this while addressing a press conference at the Secretariat on Thursday in this regard.

“The new minimum wage includes Taka 4,100 as basic salary, Taka 2,050 as house rent, Taka 600 as medical allowance, Taka 3,050 as transport allowance and Taka 900 as food allowance,” the minister said.

The announcement will be effective from December this year, he added.

On 14th January this year, the government formed a wage board to set the minimum wage for the workers.

Wage board chairman Syed Aminul Islam, board member and BGMEA president Md Siddiqur Rahman, labour adviser to the Bangladesh Employers’ Federation (owners’ representative) Kazi Saifuddin Ahmed, executive president of Awami League’s workers front Sramik League (workers’ representative) Fazlul Haque Montoo, Kamal Uddin, a teacher of the University of Dhaka (independent member) and additional secretary of the labour ministry Syed Ahmad and workers’ representative Shamsunnahar Bhuiyan, among others, were present at the meeting.