They also put up placards at the factory entrance and held demonstrations on the factory premises.

Police and Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) were deployed around the factory to avert any untoward incident. Besides, the factory was declared closed for yesterday.

Their other demands include better meal, regular payment of overtime bills and decent behaviour by the factory officials.

The factory authorities have not been paying their wages and overtime bills for the past several months, despite repeated demands, the workers alleged. In most cases they are not paid for overtime, while some of them are paid a fixed amount of Tk 500 for overtime in a month without calculating the actual hours of the overtime work, they said adding they usually get their wages irregularly on the 20th or 25th of the next month.

The factory officials also behave rudely with the workers and they often lose job if they remain absent even for a day due to illness, complained the angry workers adding that the authorities never grant any leave to anyone.

Later, General Manager of the factory Major (rtd) Md Hafiz calmed down the sewing section workers assuring them of meeting their demands.

The meeting with the workers of finishing section was continuing till the filing of the report in the evening.