Wage Board

Kamal at a meeting with Rajshahi-based journalists in the district administration's conference room on 21 Jan. Photo: Bulbul Habib/ TBS
Bangladesh

Media owners, editors responsible alongside govt for wage board corruption, says reform commission chief

Independent journalism cannot be expected if journalists' financial security is not ensured, commission chief says

US Embassy Charge d'Affaires Helen LaFave holds a meeting with Nahid Islam, adviser to the Ministry of Posts, Telecommunications, and Information Technology and the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, at the Secretariat on 10 September. Photo: Courtesy
Bangladesh

Wage board reforms for journalists under consideration: Adviser Nahid

Photo: Mumit. M
RMG

RMG minimum wage: Owners propose Tk12,500

Workers tailoring clothes at an RMG factory in Bangladesh. File Photo: Mumit M/TBS
Economy

Govt-formed wage board for RMG sector set to finalise minimum wage on Tuesday

Garment workers in Gazipur take to the streets demanding higher wages. The agitating RMG workers set on fire two vans at Shafipur in Gazipur. The photo was taken on 31 October. Photo: Syed Zakir Ho’ssain/ TBS
RMG

RMG unrest: 500 factories shut, owners pledge to reopen on Saturday

An RMG worker at a garments factory. Photo: Mumit M/TBS
RMG

Workers' wages will be higher than factory owners' proposal: Labour minister 

An RMG factory. Photo: TBS
RMG

New RMG wage structure to take effect from 1 December: Monnujan Sufian

RMG workers at a factory. File Photo: Mumit M/TBS
RMG

Board seeks another three months to propose minimum RMG wage

RMG workers at a factory. File Photo: Mumit M/TBS
RMG

Six months on, still no progress in setting new wages for RMG workers

Representational image. File Photo: Rajib Dhar/TBS
RMG

Exporters urge buyers to pay more for future orders considering workers' living costs

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RMG

RMG workers hold protest rally demanding Tk25,000 minimum wage

Meeting at the Minimum Wage Board office at Topkhana Road on 10 August. Photo: Reyad Hossain/ TBS
RMG

New wage for RMG workers likely by November

The Minimum Wage Board for the readymade garments sector today finalised the increase of RMG workers’ minimum wage to Tk12,500 from Tk8,000. Photo: Rajib Dhar/TBS
RMG

RMG workers' wage board holds first meeting; no proposal made