Bangladesh garment factories return to paying workers in cash

According to Bangladesh’s “Daily Star” report on December 21, a new study shows that during the peak period of the new crown epidemic, Bangladesh’s garment factories used digital payment to pay workers’ wages. rose once. Months later, garment factories were back to paying workers in cash. Microfinance Opportunities collaborated with the South Asian Economic Modeling Network (Sanem) to conduct the research under a project titled “Diary of a Garment Worker”. Sanem said in a press release that there was a huge shift in the way workers are paid digitally in May. In the following months, the share of digital payments slowly declined. Ready-made garment companies, suppliers of Bangladeshi brands, started cutting back on digital payments in August, when 76% paid their wages electronically, down from 87% in July. In September, 73% of factories paid wages digitally.