The government has taken a move to resolve a prevailing dispute over the payment of piece-rate basis for the sweater factory workers. The government has recently formed an 11-member committee comprising the representatives from factory owners and workers headed by a joint secretary to identify the problems and decide on the next path of solution, labour ministry officials said.
Labour leaders have been making allegations for long that the sweater factory workers are deprived of legal service benefits like overtime allowances and festival bonuses.
They also demanded hike in piece-rate payment, food and travel allowances for sweater factory workers in accordance with the newly-announced minimum wage for the woven garment factory workers.
Though the sweater factory workers receive their payments based on piece-rate but the rate was not set in the sector.
Usually, owners set the piece-rate for peak and off-peak season every year. ‘We have formed a sub-committee in last week to identify the wage-related problems of sweater factory workers as the ministry has received repeated allegations over the issue,’ labour secretary Mikail Shipar told New Age on Saturday.
-With New Age input
