Knitwear makers want 2-yr suspension of raise
Workers threaten movement
Union leaders want the continuation of a 5 per cent annual increment of wages for garment workers while knitters demand that the government let them suspend it for the next two years for mitigating the Covid-19 fallout.
Factories cannot bypass this legal requirement and should instead provide additional facilities to tide workers over through such tough times, the union leaders said.
The increment is a legitimate right of workers, said Nazma Akter, president of workers rights platform Samilito Garment Sramik Federation in a letter to the labour secretary yesterday.
She said many workers have become jobless since some factories had to shut down production since March 27 last year.