Dhaka, June 1 -- The Minimum Wage Board has identified a total of 67 additional industrial sectors and proposed that the government take necessary measures to bring them under the formal wage regulation system, sources said.

The move aims to formalise employment practices in sectors that employ thousands of workers by expanding labour protections.

Minimum Wage Board Chairman Mamunur Rashid in a recent letter to the Ministry of Labour and Employment made the proposal to bring a wide range of manufacturing, service and transport industries under the country's minimum wage framework.

Speaking to the Financial Express, Wage Board Secretary Raisa Afroze said they have identified the sectors based on the Bangladesh Standard Industrial Classi...