The interim administration has resolved that to restore industry regularity, the Government will examine worker wages through the minimum wage board.
Following a meeting at the ministry with seven advisers, AHM Shafiquzzaman, secretary to the Ministry of Labour and Employment, announced that the door will be open for debate on wage review for workers through the minimum wage board now that a new Government is in charge.
The Government, industrial owners, and labour unions will hold tripartite consultation meetings to address wages, the secretary said to the local media.
Although the current minimum salary went into force in December of last year, officials stated that the interim administration will examine the minimum pay in light of inflation and rising costs for necessities.
The Government also decided to take action to ensure that workers receive their arrears payments as soon as possible and to enhance communication between workers and representatives of the Department of Inspection for Factories and Establishments and the Ministry of Labor Adviser Asif Mahmud Shojib Bhuiyan, who chaired the meeting on Wednesday.
The meeting also decided on updating and reforming the tripartite committee, making the labour-related complaint committees functional, and holding hearings on the complaints.
Labour unrest will be addressed as soon as possible through measures based on the information collected daily. The interim Government’s advisors also resolved to lend Beximco money as quickly as possible to compensate its employees. According to Shafiquzzaman, Beximco has so far received a loan of Taka 70 crore so that it may pay the employees.
