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Commission finalises report

Minimum wages for public, private sectors recommended

By Nurul Kabir
The Wage Commission yesterday finalised its recommendation on the national minimum wages for the public sector workers at Taka 1000 and the private sector workers at Taka 900 per month.
However there was strong dtssention from Commission members representing owners of the private sector industries and enterprises over the recommendation. commission sources said.
The Wage Commission comprising an equal number of representatives from the government, employers associations and SKOP (Sramik Karmachari Ofkya Parishad) was formed following a trilat-
eral agreement signed between the government and the SKOP last July.
According to the agree ment. the government was obligated to finalise the Wage Commission report within three months from the date of its signing.
The government was also obligated, under the agree-rpent, to implement the Wage Commission recommendations with retrospective effect from July 1. 1991.
The government, however failed to finalise the Wage Commission report within the stipulated time and sought, in the face of the SKOP announced countrywide work
stoppage scheduled for November 29 and 30, a fresh deadline.
The Prime Minister while talking to the SKQP leaders on the issue in the last week of November assured them of fl nahsi ng the Wage Commission report by December 31,1992.
Discussing the issue in the 24-mcmbcr Wage Commission, the government representatives proposed a national minimum wage for the public sector workers at Taka 1000 and for the private sector workers at Taka 900 per month, sources tn the Wage Commission said.
The members of the Commission, representing Ba--
ngladesh Employers Association, according to sources protested the government proposal.
, They argued that in the last decade the wages of the workers engaged In the productive sector had been Increased 4.4 per cent while the nation s per capita Income had Increased two per cent.
Nations that failed to fix the wages of workers tn consistency with their produr I ivily virtually failed to create tn creased employment opportu nltfes. the representatives of the employers association ar gued, adding that the government proposal relating Io the
minimum wages for the work era would definitely affect the scope for new employment generation In the country
The SKOP representatives, however. with only a few ml nor objections to the proposal, accepted the amount, sources in the SKOP told The Daily Star last night.
The SKOP had been struggling for fixation of the 1400 as the national minimum wage for both the public and the private sector workers.
Iskander All. President of the HNP backed Jatiyatahadt Sramik Dal and an inlluential SKOP representative in the Wage Commission body told this correspondent yesterday. "We have accepted the government proposed minimum wage for the workers and employees of the private and pub-hc sectors in principle".
Replying Io a question, the SKOP leader said that a SKOP meeting held December 28 decided to accept the #>vcrn-ment proposed wages on the ground that there was no provision for national minimum * wage in the country after 1969. They accepted the national minimum wage as a victory. specially over the public sector employers.
A concerned government official, requesting anonymity said that the minimum wages for the private sector workers had been proposed at Taka 900 per month in the light of the pay scale announced last July for the public servants.
According Jo the pay scale, the. minimum wage for the workers and employees is Taka nine hundred per month.
According to Commission sources, the Commission would hand over its recommendation to the concerned minister today and the minister would announce the government position following consultations with his cabinet colleagues s«x>n.