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Wage Board

Minister for Information and Broadcasting Zahir Uddin Swapan. Photo: TBS

Govt to initiate formation of 10th wage board for journalists soon: Info minister

He added that six writ petitions related to the implementation of the ninth wage board are currently pending.

Adviser Mahfuj Alam addresses a ceremony to honour the families of journalists martyred in the July Uprising, as well as injured and courageous journalists, in Dhaka, 3 August, 2025. Photo: UNB

Journalists' wage board to be implemented under interim govt: Mahfuj Alam

Kamal at a meeting with Rajshahi-based journalists in the district administration's conference room on 21 Jan. Photo: Bulbul Habib/ TBS

Media owners, editors responsible alongside govt for wage board corruption, says reform commission chief

US Embassy Charge d'Affaires Helen LaFave holds a meeting with Nahid Islam, adviser to the Ministry of Posts, Telecommunications, and Information Technology and the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, at the Secretariat on 10 September. Photo: Courtesy

Wage board reforms for journalists under consideration: Adviser Nahid

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RMG minimum wage: Owners propose Tk12,500

Workers tailoring clothes at an RMG factory in Bangladesh. File Photo: Mumit M/TBS

Govt-formed wage board for RMG sector set to finalise minimum wage on Tuesday

Garment workers in Gazipur take to the streets demanding higher wages. The agitating RMG workers set on fire two vans at Shafipur in Gazipur. The photo was taken on 31 October. Photo: Syed Zakir Ho’ssain/ TBS

RMG unrest: 500 factories shut, owners pledge to reopen on Saturday

An RMG worker at a garments factory. Photo: Mumit M/TBS

Workers' wages will be higher than factory owners' proposal: Labour minister 

An RMG factory. Photo: TBS

New RMG wage structure to take effect from 1 December: Monnujan Sufian

RMG workers at a factory. File Photo: Mumit M/TBS

Board seeks another three months to propose minimum RMG wage

RMG workers at a factory. File Photo: Mumit M/TBS

Six months on, still no progress in setting new wages for RMG workers

File photo of workers at a readymade garment factory in Dhaka. Photo: Rajib Dhar/TBS

Exporters urge buyers to pay more for future orders considering workers' living costs

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RMG workers hold protest rally demanding Tk25,000 minimum wage