Only some selected people where we stay get the aid,” Alyea, a teenaged worker who identified herself with one name, said. It said 97 factories in Dhaka and 119 others in Chattogram were at the final stages of paying their workers. “The rest of the factories will try to pay the wages between Apr 20 and 22. Around 2.16 million of the over 2.4 million workers have been paid their wages, according to her. Rubana claimed the workers who protested for back pay on Wednesday and Thursday were not of factories registered with the association.

Source: bd News24 April 16, 2020 21:56 UTC