Wages Diversity and Negligence: A Comparative Study of Tea Garden Workers in Sylhet Region, Bangladesh

Wages diversity and negligence has now been placed a wider significance among the mass employees of tea garden workers, Sylhet region. Sylhet has a bright prospect to develop its tea cultivation as its treasures foreign earnings by exporting tea. A large number of people have been working in tea garden in Sylhet region for around 150 years, but tea workers live a very miserable life as they are one of the least paid workers in the country. In fact, the right and privileges of tea garden workers are going to miserable situation in the absence of proper working legislation for tea workers and realistic steps for them. Therefore, the aim of the research is to investigate the wages diversity and negligence of tea garden workers in Sylhet region with the observation of primary and secondary data. Tea garden workers are found very industrious and laborious to flourish tea industry in Bangladesh and this study results some good indications for improving wages diversity and negligence of tea garden labor community. In order to make a labor friendly nation, a renovation of wages diversity policy for tea garden workers, which should be in tune with the new national economic, social, environmental policies and trends and the government should monitor all actors and factors related to labor sector in Bangladesh.

Keywords: Wages Diversity, Negligence, Tea Garden, Workers, Discrimination