Rights violation of workers within and outside factories is continuing unabated. The sector wise minimum wages while cover some 41 sectors now, however, not only have the minimum wages in most of the factories remained unchanged for many years, the manufacturers who claim a wide array of benefits and priority from governments, have shown an unacceptable unwillingness to pass on a share of these benefits and to recognise and implement workers’ rights. The threshold of setting all these sectoral minimum wages have not also considered the value of setting minimum wages for workers’ decent living. These minimum wages accordingly fall below the workers’ and their representatives expected minimum requirements, writes Jakir Hossain.