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No garment worker can be fired or any factory can be fired before Eid. The Ministry of Labor issued the directive again on Sunday.
On 4 May a meeting was held in Shram Bhaban under the chairmanship of the Minister of State for Labor, Begum Mannujan Sufian. Past and current leaders of BGMEA and BKMEA, two organizations of clothing owners, as well as leaders of workers’ organizations affiliated with the Bangladesh Industrial Council (IBC) attended the meeting. The decisions made at the meeting that day were given today as instructions by the Ministry of Labor. However, at the end of the meeting, IBC leaders claimed that a consensus decision had not been reached. However, on May 8, BGMEA reached an agreement with them. On April 29, a tripartite meeting of the government, employers and workers decided not to fire workers.
The labor ministry said in a directive that workers who worked a full month in April would receive full pay. Those who did not work will get 75 percent of the total salary. In other words, workers who have worked for a few days in April will receive wages and allowances throughout the month for a few days, for the rest of the time at a rate of 75 percent. Again, workers will get 80 percent of the 75 percent advertised at April wages. Owners will pay the remaining 5 percent to workers in May.
Many factories announced layoffs after the start of the government-announced general holiday over coronavirus infection. The workers were fired. According to the industrial police, around eight thousand five hundred garment workers have been fired in Corona during this time. Among them, more than 6,000 workers were fired in Savar-Ashulia.
When asked, Amirul Haque Amin, president of the National Federation of Garment Workers, and Jolly Talukder, general secretary of the Garment Workers Union Center, said that the government, owners and workers had reinstated some workers. factory after a tripartite meeting. However, not all factories have reinstated the laid-off workers. They also complained that new workers were fired.
When asked about this, Arshad Jamal, vice president of BGMEA, an association of homeowners in the garment industry, told Prothom Alo: “We have asked owners not to fire workers more than once. As a result, big factories are not cutting, but small and medium-sized companies are difficult to control, even then we have pressured members not to fire workers.
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