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The new daily figure of 4,800 kyats represents a 33% increase on Myanmar's first-ever minimum wage introduced in 2015

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China has gradually been shifting from labour-intensive to capital-intensive industries.

If we really care about protecting the people who make the things we wear and use, we need to raise wages for workers in supply chains to above the poverty line.

The wages board for reviewing wages of country’s readymade garment workers is likely to be formed by this month as the labour ministry asked directorate of labour to finalise the names of the representatives of factory owners and workers for the board.

The recent research note released by International Labour Organization (ILO) presents the latest employment and wage estimates within the garment, textile and footwear (GTF) industry of 12 major garment-producing countries in developing Asia, where Bangladesh was recorded having the lowest gender pay gap compared to others in the study perimeter.

A survey conducted by IndustriAll Bangladesh Council found that 64 per cent of readymade garment workers cannot bear all the expenses of their daily essentials.  The workers need Tk 19,217 as monthly minimum pay to meet their family expenditure but the minimum wage in the sector is Tk 5,300. 

A cabinet member on Monday proposed formation of a wage board to increase workers’ wages in the apparel sector, last revised in 2013, as the government employees’ pay structures were hiked two years back.

A move has been initiated to review wages of readymade garment workers against the backdrop of workers’ movement for pay hike and demands from national and international labour rights groups. Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association has requested the government to form a minimum wage board in this regard as the apparel factory owners have expressed their willingness to raise the workers’ wages.

Oxfam has released a new report that reveals only four per cent of the price Australians spend on clothing is paid to the factory workers who made it, predominantly in Asia. That equates to 40¢ from a $10 shirt, even if the worker is paid the legal minimum wage in countries like China and Indonesia. The report released Sunday, titled What She Makes: Power and Poverty in the Fashion Industry, shows that while many leading and iconic Australian fashion brands are enjoying boost in revenue, the workers making their clothes, the vast majority of whom are women, are trapped in a cycle of poverty.