Campaign For The Festival Bonus

Festival Bonus is a Legal Right now. All the Workers and employees of private and public sector recive 2 festival bonus before the 2 main festivals. Each bonus is equivalent to the salary of a month. But the garment sector is different. Many owners do not give the festival bonus to the workers. Some owners give the bonus but only 50%. Some owners give as lump sum.

In 2001, NGWF organized a short campaign for the festival bonus before the main festival. This campaign made positive response to the workers. For festival bonus, NGWF organized some programs. For these programs and campaign, at least 5% more workers recived the festival bonus than the previous year. The number was 80.000.

The Independent
SATURDAY 3 MARCH 2001
 
Garments worlers demand salary, bonus before Eid
 
by Staff reporter
 
The Federation yesterday organised a torch procession from Muktangan yesterday demanding immediate payment of Eid bonus and due salary and other allowances to garments workers.
 
President of the Federation Alam Kabir presided over the brief rally before the procession. General Secretary Amirul Haque Amin, Assistant General Secretary Jahangir Mollah, Organising Secretary Wahiduzzaman and Treasurer Safia Parveen spoke.
 
Advisor of the Federation Advocate Abed Raja and legal advisor Advocate Selim Newaz Chowdhury Belal addressed the rally expressing their solidarity with the demands of the garments workers.
 
Another faction of garments workers federation held a meeting yesterday with its acting president Lovely Biswas in the chair.
 
Alamgir Shikder, Subal Sarker, Md Rafiqul Islam Bhuiyan, Mariam Begum, Shahnaz Begum Champa, Razia Begum and Oliur Rahman spoke.
 
The speakers demanded implementation of labour law in all garments factories.
 
The meeting expelled the general secretary of the organisation Amirul Haque Amin on the basis of the opinion of two third members, according to a press release.
 
The meeting formed a 21-member conference preparatory committee and three-member election sub-committee.


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