Tk12,500 fixed as minimum RMG wage

State Minister for Labour Monnujan Sufian has formally announced Tk12,500 as minimum salary for the garment workers.
She made the announcement at a press conference in Dhaka today hours after the garment factory owners submitted a new proposal on the minimum wage for apparel workers in Bangladesh, revising it upwards to Tk12,500.
Siddiqur Rahman, the representative of the apparel factory owners to the minimum wage board set up by the government, proposed the new minimum wage rate at a meeting of the office of the board in the capital's Segunbagicha.

Earlier, the minimum wage of a garment worker wasTk8,000.

RMG workers have been engaged in ongoing protests since 23 October, advocating for a minimum salary of at least Tk23,000.

They claim that the government and factory owners have been unresponsive to their demands, resorting to arrests, harassment, and intimidation. According to the workers, the owners are disguising their inaction by pretending to consider salary increases.