Committee to meet again to fix deadline
The meeting of the crisis management core committee in the garment sector yesterday ended without any decision on fixing the deadline to pay monthly salary and festival allowances to apparel workers before Eid-ul-Fitr.
“We have not fixed any deadline in the meeting,” said Begum Monnujan Sufian, state minister for labour and employment, after the meeting with stakeholders at the secretariat in the capital.
She said the ministry would hold more meetings with factory owners, government high-ups, the industrial police and the leaders of trade bodies in the garment sector to set the deadline.
The government formed the committee in 2013 to monitor the labour situation in all industrial sectors and address labour grievances.
The state minister urged factory owners to allow Eid vacation in phases so that workers can leave their workstations smoothly by avoiding massive traffic jam before the Eid.
The production in the garment sector should not be hampered owing to the vacation, she said.
The ministry holds such meeting with the stakeholders to avoid any untoward incidents ahead of Eid as many garment factories can not pay the workers on time.
This prompts workers to take to the streets to realise unpaid wages and festival allowances.
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