Urging the readymade garment workers to go back to work, Superintendent of Police (SP) in Dhaka Sha Migan Shafiur Rahman says police are investigating people who are acting as instigators of the unrest in the sector.

Bangladesh government has revised the wages for apparel workers in purview of a non-ending spate of unrest in its garments sector.

For the fifth consecutive day, Bangladesh’s garments workers are pursuing protests over “disparity” in their new wage structure.

At least 30 people are injured, including eight policemen, as law enforcers clash with agitating garment workers on Dhaka-Aricha highway in Savar.

Amid continued demonstrations by garment workers over alleged disparity in their new wage structure, the government yesterday assured the workers of addressing the discrimination within a month.

For the third straight day, labour unrest in Bangladesh’s apparel industry pursued throughout Dhaka and Savar with clashes and police action being reported from multiple locations.

Police dispelled a demonstration of garments workers over the new wage structure in Dhaka’s outskirts Savar this morning.

Thousands of passengers suffered massive traffic congestion yesterday as garment workers blocked the Dhaka-Mymensingh highway, demanding a raise, for five hours at the city's Uttara.

About a thousand factory workers are demonstrating in Savar protesting what they said was discrimination in their new wage board.

Eighteen readymade garment workers, including nine women, were injured in an attack by transport workers and CNG filling station employees in Savar yesterday.

The labour ministry yesterday published a gazette on the wage structure of garment workers which would come into effect from next month.

At least 35 people, including 10 policemen, were injured as police and workers of a closed readymade garment factory clashed at Adamjee EPZ in Narayanganj city yesterday.

Garment workers will demonstrate in their factory areas across the country on September 21, protesting the recent announcement of Tk 8,000 as their minimum wage and demanding doubling of the amount to Tk 16,000.

The government has raised the minimum monthly wage for 4.4 million garment workers by around 51 percent to Tk 8,000 from the existing Tk 5,300 with effect from December.

Four months into her pregnancy, Tahmina, 35, found herself under constant stress as she tried to meet the production quota in the RMG factory in Tejgaon where she had been working for the last four years.

Garment factory owners yesterday decided to negotiate with the government for gaining benefits like cash incentives or tax waivers to

All industries including readymade garments factories will have to pay the Eid festival bonus to workers by August 16.

Garment factory owners proposes 20 per cent hike in the minimum monthly wage for the 4.4 million garment workers in the country against the demand for 126.80 per cent hike by the workers’ representative.

A Tangail court today sentences a readymade garment worker to death for killing labour leader Aminul Islam in 2012.

More than 72 percent of the garment workers in Dhaka and Gazipur do not have any appointment letters, according to a survey conducted by Manusher Jonno Foundation, a non-governmental organisation.