DHAKA, Oct 8, 2023 (BSS) - The Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) has proposed
Taka 17,568 as minimum wages for the country's RMG workers considering the
uptrend in the price of essentials and the high cost of living.

The minimum wage for the RMG workers is currently now Taka 8,000.

The CPD said if the foreign buyers of RMG items can pay 7 cent extra for per
item, then the RMG owners would not fall under pressure to implement such
possible higher wage.

The civil society think tank made the proposal at a dialogue on "Fixing
minimum wages at the RMG sector: Observation and proposal" held at a city
hotel.

They said that they have conducted the study on some 228 workers of 76
garment factories. CPD research director Khandaker Golam Moazzem and senior
research director Tamim Ahmed made the keynote presentation.

BGMEA president Faruque Hassan, BKMEA executive president Mohammad Hatem,
representative from the owners at the Minimum Wage Board Siddiqur Rahman,
Workers representative at the Minimum Wage Board Sirajul Islam Rony spoke,
among others, on the occasion.