Bangladeshi Garment Workers' Wages Expected to be Raised Soon, but Factory Owners and Government Differ on Rate of Hike

Bangladesh's garment factory owners are expected to agree to raise the minimum wage of workers by about 50 percent to 80 percent, and will charge buyers more to offset the additional input cost, in an effort to put an end to a wave of strikes and protests demanding better pay that affected the output of a fifth of the nation's factories in September.

Bangladesh's government and garment exporters have been under increased pressure to improve living standards and working conditions of garment factory laborers, after a factory building collapsed in April, killing more than a thousand workers ...