The government has formed a minimum wage board, made up of owners’, workers’ and neutral representatives, to set the minimum wage for workers in the garment industry.
The Ministry of Labour and Employment issued two separate notifications on the matter on Sunday.
Under the notifications, ABM Shamsuddin, a director of the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA), has been appointed to represent the owners in the garment industry, and Babul Akhter, general secretary of the Bangladesh Garment and Industrial Workers Federation, to represent the workers.
The other notification appoints Professor Dr Mosleh Uddin Ahmed of Dhaka University’s Department of Public Administration as the neutral member, Asif Ayub, joint secretary general of the Bangladesh Employers’ Federation, as the owners’ representative, and Anwar Hossain, president of Bangladesh Jatiyatabadi Sramik Dal, as the workers’ representative.
The appointments were made under the relevant section of the Bangladesh Labour Act, 2006 (amended 2026).
The notifications ask the chairman of the minimum wage board to take the next steps to set the wage together with the owners’, workers’ and neutral representatives.
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