The committee has decided to adjust the wages of grades 1 through 6 by consensus of all parties involved. Workers’ leaders announced that the workers will join work from Monday. On January 7, the government formed a 10-member committee to resolve the crisis over the discrimination of wages in different grades in the new pay structure for apparel workers, amid unrest in the industry. State Minister Monnuzan Sufian told reporters the new wage structure was approved by the workers’ leaders, who then signed it. “The discrepancies in the wage structure have been resolved by the prime minister’s intervention.

Source: Dhaka Tribune January 13, 2019 10:56 UTC