Staff Reporter :
The Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA’s) Siddiqur Rahman on Thursday said that no innocent garment worker would be terminated from the service.
“If any worker is found that he was directly involved in the factory vandalism, looting or arson attack may face the termination, otherwise not,” he told reporters yesterday (Thursday) afternoon.
The BGMEA did not have any specific numbers as how many factories had terminated how many workers so far, he said.
If any worker is terminated, he or she must be paid the service benefits as per the labour law, the BGMEA president further said.
Meanwhile, workers’ leaders claimed that a total of 1,411 workers were suspended in 16 factories in Ashulia since the protests over the wage disparity began last week.
Our Savar correspondent reporter while visiting some factories there found evidence of suspension from work there.
Yesterday, police arrested 25 garment workers from Ashulia and Savar industrial zones for their alleged involvement in vandalism, looting goods from factories, and torching vehicles during the weeklong labour unrest that ended on Tuesday.
So far, 10 separate cases have been filed with Ashulia and Savar police stations against 215 named and more than 1,000 unnamed garment workers for their alleged involvement in vandalism and looting.
