Their promise came at a meeting among the commerce ministry, BGMEA, BKMEA, BTMA and FBCCI at the secretariat in Dhaka on Thursday. In order to ensure timely payment to the workers before the Eid, the business leaders sat with the home ministry, the labour ministry and the prime minister's principal secretary earlier in the day. Garments Workers' Rights Movement demanded from a human chain formed in front of the National Press Club on Sunday that workers be paid their salary and bonus within 20th Ramadan. BGMEA’s 15 monitoring committees are working with factory owners and the labour ministry, he said. Every year, complications have been created over payment of the wage and festival bonus of industrial workers, especially garment workers.

Source: bd News24 May 31, 2018 09:11 UTC