The government has announced minimum wages of garment workers

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The government has announced minimum wages for the garment workers. The minimum wages is BDT eight thousand. It was more helpful for existing workers also new requite workers for RMG sectors. The Labor and Employment Minister Mujibul Haque Chunnu announced the wage of the emergency press conference in the Ministry of Labor and Employment in the Secretariat on Thursday (September 13th). The minimum wages of garments worker is a demand of recent price hike of every consumable goods.

The government formed a wage board for garment workers on January 14 this year. With the permanent four members of the garment factory owners’ organization, BGMEA president and one representative of the workers, this wage board has set the wages considering overall consideration. Earlier, on 7 November 2013, the Gazette was published by fixing the minimum wage of garments workers Tk. 5300.00. This wage is effective from December of that year.

Existence Calculation :

Designation	Pattern Master	Mechanic Electrician	Sr. Cutter Man Sr. Operator Sr. QC Sr. Packing Man Sr. Iron man	Cutter Man Operator QC Folding Man Packing Man Iron Man	Jr. Operator Jr. Iron Man	Gen. Operator	Helper
Minimum Wages-2013	Minimum Wages- 2013
	13,000	10,900	6,805	6,420	6,042	5,678	5,300
Grade	Grade-1	Grade-2	Grade-3	Grade-4	Grade-5	Grade-6	Grade-7	Grand Total
No of Employees			235	375	110	45	228	993
Average of Gross			8,259	7,474	7,262	6,545	5,789	7,066
Sum of Gross Ext Wages			1,940,854	2,802,880	798,859	294,514	1,319,877	7,156,985
Max of Gross			17,795	13,600	12,000	6,900	7,138	17,795
Min of Gross			7,000	6,420	6,400	6,000	5,300	5,300
Min Wage 2013	13,000	10,900	6,805	6,420	6,042	5,678	5,300
Grade to Grade %	19.27%	60.18%	6.00%	6.26%	6.41%	7.13%	0%

So, How to calculate the incremental wages for factory workers for recent announcement by the Government. The below calculation are each authority from Worker Leaders, BGMEA and Government. Here the calculation are obtained by Grade % Variation, Existence and New Wages. 

 

Proposal of BGMEA	15,600	13,080	8,166	7,704	7,250	6,814	6,360		Max. impact but not less than 7%
Grade % Variation (New-Ext)/Ext	20.00%	20.00%	20.00%	20.00%	20.00%	20.00%	20.00%
Grade to Grade %	19.26%	60.70%	6.00%	6.26%	6.41%	7.13%
Impact	–	–	2,329,025	3,363,456	958,631	353,417	1,583,853	8,588,382	16.67%
Proposal of Workers Leader	21,050	17,550	16,150	14,960	13,910	12,930	12,020		Max. impact but not less than 70%
Grade % Variation (New-Ext)/Ext	61.92%	61.01%	137.33%	133.02%	130.22%	127.72%	126.79%
Impact	–	–	4,606,142	6,531,321	1,839,148	670,671	2,993,382	16,640,664	132.51%
Announced by Govt.	19,686	16,507	10,272	9,691	9,120	8,571	8,000		Max. impact but not less than 15%
Grade % Variation (New-Ext)/Ext	51.43%	51.44%	50.94%	50.94%	50.94%	50.94%	50.94%
Impact	–	–	2,929,591	4,230,762	1,205,826	444,550	1,992,268	10,802,996	50.94%

 

This wage has been announced for the minimum of Tk. 8000 (Eight) thousand.