Dhaka: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday called upon all to come forward to ensure fair wage, safe and hygienic work environment for workers to establish their rights and dignity.

She came up with the call in a message on the eve history May Day and greeted all toiling masses and workers of the world and expressed solidarity with them.

The Prime Minister said the government has already announced minimum wage for workers of 38 industrial sectors including garments and upgraded minimum wage of labour-dense garment industry workers to Taka 5,300.

In her message, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina paid deep respect to the people who embraced martyrdom to establish fundamental rights of the working people in Chicago in 1886.

She said greatest Bengalee of all time Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman had struggled throughout his life for realizing rights of the deprived and working class people of the country.

‘We are relentlessly working to follow the ideals of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman for developing living standard of the working people,’ the Prime Minister said.

She said the government has already modernized the Bangladesh Labour Law 2006 and formulated Bangladesh Labour (Amendment) Law 2013.

It formulated Bangladesh Labour Rules 2015 for the first time in the country’s history, she added.

‘Because of our sincere efforts, the country’s bilateral relations and activates with International Labour Organization have been further strengthened,’ she said.

Sheikh Hasina said the government has been implementing multidimensional programmes to ensure safe work environment and social safety and to keep continue cordial and good relations between owners and workers.

She underscored the need for making united efforts to materialize the visions 2021 and 2041 to build a prosperous Sonar Bangla as dreamt by Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

She hoped that productivity of factories and mills would increase through cordial relations between employees and employers by following the spirit of the historic May Day.

The Prime Minister wished all the May Day programmes a success