Government employees have called on the authorities to publish the gazette for the proposed ninth pay scale by 15 December and implement it from January 2026.
The demand was announced at a rally organised by the ‘Government Employees’ Demands Realisation Unity Council’ at the Central Shaheed Minar in Dhaka on Friday.
Speaking at the gathering, Abu Nasir Khan, president of the Bangladesh Administrative Officer Implementation Unity Council, said salaries of public-sector employees are meant to be reviewed every five years to keep pace with inflation.
“Since 2015, there has been no salary adjustment for government employees, despite the continued rise in market prices,” he said.
At the rally, the organisation presented a seven-point charter of demands, which includes gazette notification of the ninth pay scale, proposing salaries ranging from Tk35,000 to Tk140,000 across 12 grades at a 1:4 ratio by 15 December, with implementation starting January 2026.
Their second demand is reinstatement of three abolished time scales and selection grades which is restoration of seniority in the pay structure, introduction of pensions for employees in all autonomous bodies, raising gratuity from 90 to 100 percent, and fixing pension gratuity at a 1=500 ratio.
They also demanded regular promotions or higher-grade upgrades every five years for all categories of staff, including those in block posts, and granting formal technical status to employees in technical roles.
Other demands are continuation of annual increments for employees who have reached the final step of their pay scale, where increments currently stop, withdrawal of the 2008 directive that excludes service tenure in development projects from calculations for time scale and selection grade once employees shift to the revenue sector, revision of allowances based on current market conditions and cost of living, and the introduction of a rationing system for employees in grades 10 through 20 and uniform recruitment rules across government, semi-government and autonomous institutions, similar to the Secretariat framework, to eliminate pay and rank disparities.
