The Bangladesh Government Employees’ Coordination Council, the country’s largest public-sector workers’ platform, has declared a national rally in Dhaka on Saturday, 6 December, along with a long march towards the Secretariat in the third week of January, demanding implementation of the National Pay Commission’s recommendations and fulfilment of five major demands.
The announcement came on Tuesday, 2 December, during a press briefing held at the council’s central office on Abdul Gani Road in the capital. It was delivered by Nomanuzzaman Azad, chairman of the organisation’s policy-making council. As part of their programme, memorandums containing an ultimatum will be submitted to the chief adviser and the finance adviser on 3 December.
Speaking at the event, the organisation’s secretary-general, Badrul Alam Sabuj, emphasised that the government must issue the gazette notification of the new National Pay Commission by 15 December and implement it from 1 January. He further demanded the reinstatement of the timescale, selection grade and full pension system. To eliminate administrative and financial inequality, he called for the establishment of a National Service Commission and the introduction of a uniform recruitment policy similar to that of the Secretariat. Other demands include regularising all temporary employees, providing quality rations at fair prices, abolishing the outsourcing-based hiring process, filling vacant revenue posts, ensuring promotion opportunities in block posts and granting trade union rights to all public employees in government দপ্তর under ILO Conventions 87 and 98.
The council’s president, Mohammad Azmi, answered various questions raised by journalists. Among those present were Md Selim Bhuiyan, Md Rokonuzzaman, Rafiqul Islam Mamun, Zillur Rahman Khan, Ohidur Rahman and Kamal Hossain Shikdar.
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