Thousands Fired From $30 Billion Bangladesh Garment Sector
- Failure to implement new minimum wage has led to protests
- Factories claim vandalism as more than 10,000 dismissed
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Garment worker Rabeya started protesting on the streets of Dhaka in early January to pressure her employer -- one of Bangladesh’s major suppliers to European clothing giant H&M -- to pay a new minimum wage for its workers.
On Feb. 9, she said two company officials from Moon Readywears Ltd. told her not to bother returning to her job after lunch. Rabeya, who uses one name, said it’s because she joined a campaign to force her employer to pay her colleagues the new minimum by the Bangladesh Government for garment sector workers -- a claim the company denies.