Dhaka: Garments Workers Trade Union on Monday placed a demand before the garment factory owners to pay the salaries and Eid bonuses of the workers within the 20th of Ramadan.

The workers’ rights organisation came up with the demand at a human chain programme arranged in front of the Jatiya Press Club.

General secretary of the organisation Kazi Ruhul Amin said the owners should pay the salaries and Eid bonuses to the workers earlier so that they can observe the joyous occasion satisfactorily.

Referring to the garment workers as the most deprived segment in the entire industrial sector, he said every year the RMG sector owners start dilly-dallying whenever it is time to pay the workers prior to Eid.

The owners do enormous business centering the occasion of Eid but they always try to deprive the workers from their rights, Amin further added.

The organisation also urged the government to monitor the sector to ensure workers’ payment properly.

Garments Sramik Trade Union Kendra vice-president Ziaul Karim Zia and other worker leaders were present at the programme.