Business Report :
Speakers at a discussion have emphasised executing recommended minimum wages for the tannery sector soon.
At a joint consultation meeting organised by Solidarity Center-Bangladesh held at a hotel in Dhaka on Tuesday, they urged the government to publish a gazette on the recommended minimum wage of Tk18001 for the tannery sector.
Members of Tannery Workers Union (TWU) and Bangladesh Labour Rights Journalists Forum (BLRJF) attended the meeting.
They stressed the need for strengthening the social and environmental rights of workers in the tannery sector.
Abul Kalam Azad, Président of TWU, Abdul Malek, General Secretary of TWU, AKM Nassim, Country Programme Director, Solidarity, Bangladesh, Kazi Abdul Hannan, president BLRJF, among others, spoke in the event.
The speakers said after 16 months of formation of the minimum wage board, the recommendation of minimum wage Tk18001 was placed to the Ministry of Labour.