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82 workers deported from Jordan to get compensation

Staff Correspondent
US-based Steve and Barry, the buyer of Caliber Garments factory in jordan, will provide compensation to the factory's 82 Bangladeshi workers deported from Jordan without payment of their arrears.
The deported workers will be given Tk 41,000 each through
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Hotline Human Rights Bangladesh (HHRB), which received US$50,000 from Steve and Barry via New York Province of the Society of Jesus as compensation.
It was disclosed at a press conference organised by the HHRB at the Dhaka Reporters' Unityyesterday.
Of the 82 deported workers, 35 were givenTk41,000 each as compensation yesterday while the rest will be given money within two weeks.
About 200 Bangladeshi workers of Caliber Garments were deported from Jordan between January and February this year after they demanded payment of arrears.
The deported workers said they were forced to do overtime for six to eight hours without payment
Although the company was bound to provide them with accommodation, meal and medical treatment as per the contract, it did not comply with the agreement
They also alleged that the factory authorities had deducted 26 Jordanian Dinar from their salaries for meal violat -ing the contract
In a written statement, HHRB coordinator Rozalin Costa said when they learnt about the repression on Bangladeshi workers, they approached US-based National Labour Co mmifree.
The Committee then asked Steve and Barry to investigate the allegations brought by the deported workers. A five-member delegation from the company arrived in Dhaka on March 28 this year and talked to tire deported workers.
Later, the delegation made a proposal for providing the deported workers with compensation, added Rozalin.
iMahinura Akter Mariam, a deported worker, said the company authorities sent her back to Bangladesh without paying arrears worth about Tk2 Lakh.
"We were confined to the dormitory after the company authorities came to know drat we had sought help from tire labour ministry in Jordan," sheadded.
Human rights activist Rafiqul Alam and deported Bangladeshi workers, among others, were presen t.