The workers of two garment factories in the Dhaka Export Processing Zone in Ashulia demonstrated on Tuesday for payment of their overdue wages.
Police and factory sources said that the workers of Alfa Patten and Alfa Fashion Bangladesh Ltd, which are owned by the same person, went to the factories in the morning on Tuesday, and were told that they would not get their wages that day. They became agitated, abstained from work and began demonstrating.
According to the rules of the EPZ, the workers have to be paid their wages before the 10th of each month.
The management said that due to some internal problems they could not pay the workers their April wages in time, but the workers complained to reporters that the management often delays the payment of their wages.
The Ashulia thana police said that the management had promised that the workers would be paid their wages on 15 May, and declared holiday till 14 May to prevent any untoward incident.
The deputy director of the Ashulia zone industrial police, Faizul Kabir, said though the workers had demonstrated there had been no vandalism or violence.
An additional number of policemen, however, have been deployed.
Source: New Age
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