Gazette out on revised wages for RMG workers
FE Report | Sunday, 27 January 2019
The gazette notification on the revised wages for ready-made garment (RMG) workers has been published.
Earlier on January 13, the government declared the upward revision of basic and gross wages in six out of seven grades for the garment sector.
The gazette was published on January 24 under the Bangladesh Labour Law 2006.
The gross hike ranges from a token Tk 15 to a modest Tk 747, effective from last December and to be adjusted from next February.
In the revised structure, which comes after agitation of workers, the annual increment has been fixed at 5.0 per cent.
Basic pay of grade six has been proposed at Tk 4,380, up by Tk 10 from the recently announced wage structure.
Sixth graders will receive Tk 8,420 as gross wage that includes 50 per cent of basic as house rent, Tk 600 as medical allowance, Tk 350 transport and Tk 900 as food allowance.
In 2013, basic pay and gross wage of the same grade were fixed at Tk 3,270 and Tk 5,678 respectively.
Basic pay under grades four and five has been proposed at Tk 4,683 and Tk 4,998 respectively.
The proposal recommended a hike by Tk 13 and Tk 68 respectively from the new structure announced through a gazette notification last November.
Gross wages of the two grades now stand at Tk 8,875 and Tk 9,347 respectively, up by Tk 2,833 and Tk 2,927 respectively from the gross wages set in 2013.
Basic pay for third graders has been hiked by Tk 170 when their gross will be Tk 9,845.
Their gross wage has been set at Tk 9,590 in the latest structure, which was Tk 6,805 in 2013.
The government has proposed Tk 9,044 and Tk 10,938 as basic pay in grades two and one from Tk 8,520 and Tk 10,440 set in November 2018.
According to the revised pay, gross wages will be Tk 15,416 and Tk 18,257 in grades two and one respectively.
Gross wages of the two grades were Tk 10,900 and Tk 13,000 respectively in 2013.
Both basic pay and gross wages for seventh graders remained unchanged at Tk 4,100 and Tk 8,000 fixed in the latest wage structure.
The last pay structure took effect last December.
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