BANGLADESH NEWS
The government has no plan to review the wage structure of the garment workers now as they can hardly enjoy the benefits of increased salary for higher house rent, said Labour and Employment Minister Khandker Mosharraf Hossain on Wednesday.
Rather, the government is planning to introduce rationing system for the garment workers so that they can buy the food stuff at lower prices, the minister said.
“If the salary of the workers is increase now, the problem will be compounded further, because the house owners will increase the rent immediately. As a result, the garment workers will not be benefited from the wage hike,” he said.
“The owners increase the house rent even four times in a year, which is waning the income of the workers,” Khandker Mosharraf said at a press briefing after a meeting with international garment buyers and their representatives at his secretariat office in Dhaka.
The minister called the buyers at his office at a time when different quarters have been talking about the labour unrest in the garment sector and the country’s human rights and the future of ready-made garment (RMG) industry.
The minister said the situation of the country did worsen to a position for which the international buyers can cancel orders from Bangladesh to other destinations.
The food department and finance ministry are now in talk for starting rationing for the workers as their income is waning to the increasing inflation, the minister said.
Moreover, the government will review the rent control act soon and implement it strongly, so that the owners cannot increase the rent frequently, he said.
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