tea The workers will get 11 thousand taka per person as paid wages.
This decision was held in a meeting with Bangladeshi Tea Sangsad (Owners) and Bangladesh Tea Workers Union leaders and activists at Bijnagar Labor Bhavan in the capital on Wednesday (February 2) night.
After the meeting, Minister of State for Labor and Employment Mannujan Sufitan announced the announcement that a circular signed by Director General of the Directorate of Labor Department Khaled Mamun Chowdhury was issued later that night.
According to the circular, the Minister of State for Labor and Employment has exchanged views with the Bangladeshi Tea Sangsad (Owners) and the Bangladesh Tea Workers Union (Labor Party) to resolve the situation related to the payment of wages from the wages of tea workers.
The money management authority will pay in three installments, in which the first installment must be paid before March 7. The payment of the remaining two installments will be discussed by the tea workers and the owners.
Last year, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina increased the daily wage of tea workers from Tk 120 to Tk 170. In addition to determining wages, annual leave, festival holidays, sick leave, and sick leave, the Prime Minister announced that the owner will be borne in the future fund.
ration facilities will be provided at the subsidized price.Medical facilities, pension of retired workers, education of pets for tea workers, maintenance, grazing land, free housing and maintenance work and production in homes.
In view of this, the tea workers have been coming to the benefits of increased wages and other benefits from the day after the Prime Minister's announcement, but the workers were coming to demand an increased wage for the sum from January 2021 to 27 August 2022.
In the meeting, the secretary of the ministry. Ehchane Elahi, Additional Secretary Taufiqul Arif, Director General of Labor Department Khaled Mamun Chowdhury, Bangladeshi Tea Sangsad Cheeterman Shah Alam, Secretary General Dr. Mozaffar Ahmed, Kamran Ti Rahman, Acting General Secretary of Cha Sramik Union Nripen Pal, Finance Secretary Paresh Kalindi and other leaders were present.
