{"id":4758,"date":"2010-07-27T11:14:44","date_gmt":"2010-07-27T10:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/?p=4758"},"modified":"2010-07-28T11:30:11","modified_gmt":"2010-07-28T10:30:11","slug":"bangladesh-increases-garment-workers-minimum-wage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/2010\/07\/27\/bangladesh-increases-garment-workers-minimum-wage\/","title":{"rendered":"Bangladesh increases garment workers&#8217; minimum wage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-south-asia-10779270\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4759\" title=\"100728_bbc\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/100728_bbc.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a>Bangladesh will almost double the minimum wage for its garment workers, a wage board official says, following months of violent protests over pay. It will rise from 1,662 taka ($25; \u00c2\u00a316) per month to 3,000 taka. The labour ministry is to formally announce the deal on Thursday. Workers wanted the rate, last raised in 2006, to triple to 5,000 taka a month. Bangladesh makes clothes for Western brands such as Walmart, Tesco, H&amp;M, Marks &amp; Spencer, Zara and Carrefour. The garments industry is the backbone of Bangladesh&#8217;s economy, earning about $12bn a year &#8211; nearly 80% of the country&#8217;s total exports. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-south-asia-10779270\" target=\"_blank\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>News selected by Covalence | Country: Bangladesh |  Company: Walmart, Tesco, H&amp;M, Marks &amp; Spencer, Zara, Carrefour  | Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-south-asia-10779270\" target=\"_blank\">BBC News<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bangladesh will almost double the minimum wage for its garment workers, a wage board official says, following months of violent protests over pay. It will rise from 1,662 taka ($25; \u00c2\u00a316) per month to 3,000 taka. The labour ministry is to formally announce the deal on Thursday. Workers wanted the rate, last raised in 2006,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":665,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_post_series":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[53,55,110,19,659],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-4758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-hm","tag-marks-spencer","tag-tesco","tag-wal-mart","tag-zara","entry","no-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4758"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=4758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}