RMG factory shut for a lack of work order

A garment factory in Savar yesterday closed its operation permanently in the face of insufficient work order for the last few months, owners said.
Mohammad Ashek Elahi Sumon, a director of Bonds Fashions at Kalma area in the industrial belt, said the factory had been facing an acute fund shortage.
Sumon also said the workers were given half of the salary for the month of March on April 13, as it could not afford a full pay.

The workers started demonstration at 6pm when the factory management said it would pay their termination benefits on May 10.
They kept Sumon captive for realising compensation and other benefits. He was freed after the factory officials signed an agreement.  
“In the agreement, we have agreed to pay the workers before May 10,” Sumon said.