A large part of the workers in Bangladesh are day laborers They work for daily wages In particular, workers in agriculture, construction industry and development work work on a daily wage basis Many people are not sure about getting a job every day Therefore, workers' walk has been formed in remote areas of the country including Dhaka Workers go to these markets in the morning in the hope of work And those who need workers, they take the workers from there Devdas Majumder, a journalist from Mathbaria upazila in the southern district of Pirojpur in Bangladesh, told Deutsche Welle: Their maximum daily wage is 500 rupees However, the problem is that they do not get work every day So their average wage is much lower It is difficult to run their family with this wage. ”Agricultural workers work 5/6 months a year The rest of the time they are unemployed Their daily wage is four to five hundred rupees, but their daily wage is a little more than 200 rupees.
In Bangladesh, however, workers work in large-scale industries, including ready-made garments, textiles, jute and engineering, for a monthly salary. And there are some more benefits including getting their appointment letter In 2013, the minimum monthly wage in the garment industry in Bangladesh was set at Tk 5,300 In engineering and risky industries, the wages are a bit higher Even then, garment workers do not make a living. Bangladesh has one of the lowest average wages in South Asia or any Asian country. The average daily wage of a worker in Bangladesh is 18 rupees 8 paise (US 2.19). ৪ 2.40 in India, ১ 3.15 in Pakistan and ৬ 2.18 in Myanmar. This is the average calculation In general, there are differences in wages in different industries
Wages in agriculture are now the lowest in Bangladesh Among other sectors, the daily wage is Rs 246.18 in the textile sector, Rs 246.50 in the jute industry and Rs 350 in the engineering sector.
However, it is for unskilled workers The salary of skilled workers is a little higher
According to the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics, the workforce in Bangladesh is 5 crore 7 lakh 8 Of these, 3 crore 95 lakh are men and 1 crore 82 lakh are women However, most of the total workforce lives in villages The urban labor force is 1 crore 33 lakh and the rural population is 4 crore 34 lakh 8
I can see sad parallels between this and the 'zero hours contract' culture that has started to creep in here in the UK. If your employer doesn't need you on any given day, you don't work - which means your monthly earnings are much lower than your daily rate would suggest they should be. Apparently it is good for employees who value 'flexibility' as they also have the right to turn down work, but what would happen if you did that too often I wonder?