Labour and employment adviser Asif Mahmud Shojib Bhuiyan on Wednesday said that the government was planning to introduce a pension scheme for workers in the readymade garment sector to ensure their post-retirement social security.
He made the remark while inaugurating the sales of essentials by the Trading Corporation of Bangladesh at subsidised prices for workers on the premises of a garment factory in Gazipur鈥檚 Tongi. 聽
鈥楾here is social security for all professions. We have a dream to introduce a pension scheme for RMG workers to ensure that they are not retiring empty-handed,鈥� he said.
Remembering the role of the workers in the recent student-led mass uprising, Asif said that around one hundred workers sacrificed their lives in the movement.
That is why, he said, the workers should be the first beneficiaries of the freedom achieved through the movement.
He further said that the government had already agreed to the 18-point demand of the workers and had begun to implement them. 聽
Under this TCB program, each of the workers will receive 5 kilograms of rice, 2 kilograms of red lentils, and 2 kilograms of oil for Tk 470.
The adviser said that the sales of TCB products at reasonable prices would soon be expanded to other industrial zones.
Labour and employment affairs secretary AHM Safikuzzaman, commerce secretary Md Selim Uddin, TCB chairman Brigadier General Md Mostafa Iqbal, and BGMEA president Khandakar Rafiqul Islam, among others, were also present.