{"id":7322,"date":"2013-05-13T11:55:27","date_gmt":"2013-05-13T06:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=7322"},"modified":"2013-05-13T11:55:27","modified_gmt":"2013-05-13T06:55:27","slug":"bangladesh-to-raise-garment-workers-minimum-wages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=7322","title":{"rendered":"Bangladesh to raise garment workers&#8217; minimum wages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/1\u0532\u0561\u0576\u0563\u056c\u0561\u0564\u0565\u0577\u0578\u0582\u0574-\u056f\u0561\u0580\u056b-\u0563\u0578\u0580\u056e\u0561\u0580\u0561\u0576\u0576\u0565\u0580\u056b-\u0561\u0577\u056d\u0561\u057f\u0561\u056f\u056b\u0581\u0576\u0565\u0580\u056b-\u0561\u0577\u056d\u0561\u057f\u0561\u057e\u0561\u0580\u0571\u0565\u0580\u0568-\u056f\u0562\u0561\u0580\u0571\u0580\u00d5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7320\" alt=\"1\u0532\u0561\u0576\u0563\u056c\u0561\u0564\u0565\u0577\u0578\u0582\u0574 \u056f\u0561\u0580\u056b \u0563\u0578\u0580\u056e\u0561\u0580\u0561\u0576\u0576\u0565\u0580\u056b \u0561\u0577\u056d\u0561\u057f\u0561\u056f\u056b\u0581\u0576\u0565\u0580\u056b \u0561\u0577\u056d\u0561\u057f\u0561\u057e\u0561\u0580\u0571\u0565\u0580\u0568 \u056f\u0562\u0561\u0580\u0571\u0580\u00d5\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/1\u0532\u0561\u0576\u0563\u056c\u0561\u0564\u0565\u0577\u0578\u0582\u0574-\u056f\u0561\u0580\u056b-\u0563\u0578\u0580\u056e\u0561\u0580\u0561\u0576\u0576\u0565\u0580\u056b-\u0561\u0577\u056d\u0561\u057f\u0561\u056f\u056b\u0581\u0576\u0565\u0580\u056b-\u0561\u0577\u056d\u0561\u057f\u0561\u057e\u0561\u0580\u0571\u0565\u0580\u0568-\u056f\u0562\u0561\u0580\u0571\u0580\u00d5.jpg\" width=\"245\" height=\"163\" \/><\/a>Bangladesh has set up a panel to raise the minimum wage for millions of garment workers, a minister said Sunday, as tens of thousands protested over poor conditions highlighted by a series of disasters.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve set up a minimum wage board for the garment sector. We did it in view of the workers&#8217; demand to hike their salaries,&#8221; textile minister Abdul Latif Siddique told AFP.<\/p>\n<p>A typical Bangladeshi garment worker takes home less than $40 a month, a wage that Pope Francis has condemned as akin to slave labour. Their minimum wage was last raised &#8212; by 80 percent &#8212; in November 2010.<\/p>\n<p>The panel will include union representatives as well as factory owners, Siddique added. &#8220;There is no doubt the salaries will be hiked,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bangladesh has set up a panel to raise the minimum wage for millions of garment&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7320,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}