Sacked Mongla dockers get dues partially
Thirty-one out of 1,758 sacked dockworkers of Mongla Port received 75 percent of their dues and other financial benefits from the authority yesterday.
Shipping Minister Shajahan Khan at a function held at Rimjhim Chattar in Mongla handed over the payments.
The remaining 25 percent of the dues will be paid in the second phase, said Zahid Hossain, a director of the Mongla Port Authority.
“The other 1,727 workers will also be paid the same in phases,” said Hossain.
Total 2,634 dockers lost their jobs when the last caretaker government abolished the Dock Workers' Management Board (DWMB) on August 1 last year, port officials said.
Of them, 1758 were registered with the DWMB as permanent workers, while the rest 876 were left as unregistered workers.
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