Workers' Minimum Wages
Govt to get tough against defaulter RMG owners
Warns adviser
UNB, Dhaka
The government would get tough with garment-factory owners to make them pay the recommended minimum wages to their workers if they want to run their business, the finance and commerce adviser warned Sunday."We won't allow any excuse in implementation of the minimum wage; if they fail, they have to go out of business," Dr Mirza Azizul Islam told reporters after his 'Social Compliance Forum for RMG' meeting in the Commerce Ministry conference room. Responding to a question, he said that the government would take actions as per the law of the land against the defaulter garment owners. "If the garment owners say that they will not be able to pay the minimum wage as they don't have adequate order, we will not tolerate those lame excuses. You have to pay the minimum wage, otherwise, like the other sorts of business, this business also has exit point as well as entry point," he said. Dr Aziz said that in a sample study on 1023 garment factories the government figured out that 600 of them are compliant and 130 non-compliant. "The other factories are medium- category factories as they don't apply compliance issues properly."
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