Earlier, the government had warned garment factories of legal action, including licence suspension, if they fail to pay March wages.
About 87 per cent of factory workers listed with the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) have received March wages, the association recently claimed. The rest are mostly small and medium factories who do not have big buyers as clients, BGMEA president Rubana Huq said. The government had set up a deadline for paying March wages.#
BGMEA has more than 4,500 registered units while some 2,274 are engaged in direct exports. The rest engage in sub-contracting. Out of 2,274 units, 1,665 have paid wages, the association was quoted as saying by Bangla media reports.
Wage disbursements are going on in some 97 factories in Dhaka and 119 in Chattogram.
Foreign buyers are cancelling orders, paying late and asking for discounts even from their existing big suppliers, Huq said. The smaller ones, including sub-contractors and those that supply to both traditional and non-traditional markets, are facing liquidity problem, she added.
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