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		</div><p>Authorities in Bangladesh have announced a new salary structure for protesting garment factory workers, with a 56 per cent increase in the monthly minimum wage to $113 (€100) from the previous $75.</p>
<p>But some workers’ groups rejecting the rise as too small.</p>
<p>State minister for labour and employment Monnujan Sufian announced the decision on Tuesday following a meeting of a government-formed wage board made up of representatives of factory owners and workers.</p>
<p>She said the new pay structure will take effect from December 1st.</p>
<p>Critics say the influential factory owners should do more for the workers.</p>
<p>The decision came after weeks of violent protests by workers demanding a monthly minimum wage of $208.</p>
<p>Workers have demonstrated in the streets, attacked factories, fought with police and burned vehicles.</p>
<p>The protests began after the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association offered to increase the monthly minimum wage by 25 per cent to $90.</p>
<figure id="attachment_180849" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-180849" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/579A2183-EA02-4376-931C-688BCDFC420F.webp" alt="" width="640" height="427" class="size-full wp-image-180849" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-180849" class="wp-caption-text">Garment factory workers demanding better wages block traffic in the Dhaka-Mirpur area of Bangladesh</figcaption></figure>
<p>The last increase in the minimum wage was announced in 2018.</p>
<p>Workers say they currently need to work overtime to make ends meet.</p>
<p>Kalpona Akter, president of the Bangladesh Garment and Industrial Workers Federation, said they were “extremely frustrated” over what she described as a paltry increase.</p>
<p>She said workers are struggling because the prices of daily commodities are rising.</p>
<p>“This is very frustrating. We can’t accept this,” she said.</p>
<p>Bangladesh is the second largest garment-producing country in the world after China, with nearly 3,500 factories employing about four million workers, most of them women, according to the manufacturers’ association.</p>
<p>It says factory owners are under pressure because global brands in Western countries are offering less than before.</p>
<p>Owners argue that production costs have also increased because of higher energy prices and transport costs.</p>
<p>Bangladesh annually earns about $55 billion from exports of garment products, mainly to the United States and Europe. The country is also exploring new markets such as Japan, China and India.</p>
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