Wage Board

Wage Board

Labour and Employment Secretary Md. Abdur Rahman Tarafder/ File Photo

Wage Board for garment workers soon: Labour secretary

The board will review these aspects before reaching a decision on wage levels; in other words, the Ministry will not unilaterally set the wage amount through administrative action, he added.

File photo of workers at a readymade garment factory in Dhaka. Photo: Rajib Dhar/TBS

Govt moves to form RMG wage board amid Tk30,000 minimum pay demand

Bangladesh’s dependence on imported fabrics — often from China — creates supply chain bottlenecks and increases costs. Photo: TBS/ File Photo

Govt mulls wage increase for RMG workers

IndustriALL demands wage board reconstitution, new minimum wage for garment workers

IndustriALL demands wage board reconstitution, new minimum wage for garment workers

Garment workers stage a human chain in front of the National Press Club today (14 August), demanding the reconstitution of the minimum wage board. Photo: TBS

Garment workers demand reconstitution of minimum wage board

Minister for Information and Broadcasting Zahir Uddin Swapan. Photo: TBS

Govt to initiate formation of 10th wage board for journalists soon: Info minister

Adviser Mahfuj Alam addresses a ceremony to honour the families of journalists martyred in the July Uprising, as well as injured and courageous journalists, in Dhaka, 3 August, 2025. Photo: UNB

Journalists' wage board to be implemented under interim govt: Mahfuj Alam

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

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

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

Wage board reforms for journalists under consideration: Adviser Nahid

Photo: Mumit. M

RMG minimum wage: Owners propose Tk12,500

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

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

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

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