The minimum salary for garment workers is Tk 12,500, as officially announced by State Minister for Labour Monnujan Sufian at a press conference in Dhaka today.
The minimum wage board for garment industry made announcement came hours after the owners of Bangladeshi garment factories presented a revised proposal, raising the minimum salary for textile workers to Tk 12,500, according to a source.
Siddiqur Rahman, the representative of the garment factory owners on the government-established minimum wage board, proposed the new minimum wage rate during a meeting at the board`s office in the capital`s Segunbagicha.
They had proposed Tk 10,400 earlier.
Workers demand a raise in the minimum wage to Tk 23,000 from Tk 8,000.
