Tag: minimum wage

Tk. 12,800 minimum wage finalized for EPZ workers

- Times Report -

A minimum monthly wage of Tk. 12,800 has been finalized for the workers of the EPZs run under BEPZA. The wage board finalized the wage in its 5th & last meeting on 21st December. Under the Section 65 of the 'Bangladesh EPZ Labor Act 2019', the government constituted a Wage

How we are trapped in wage slavery

- Monswita Bulbuli -

Mina was born and brought up in a remote village of Bangladesh. Like most of the girls in the village, she also got married before she turned twenty, and she couldn’t finish her school education. She became a mother of a son soon after her marriage. After a few years