Protests at the Secretariat again demanding the repeal of the Employment Ordinance

On Monday (June 2), employees started a protest procession from in front of Building No. 4 of the Secretariat at around 11 am.

At that time, the protesters kept chanting slogans like ‘In my golden Bengal, there is no place for discrimination’, ‘It has been laid, it has been burnt in the blood’, ‘It has been woken up, the Secretariat has woken up’, ‘I will not accept it, I will not accept it, this is a fascist black law’, ‘I will not accept it, this is an illegal black law’, ‘Malloys of fascism, beware’, ‘18 lakh employees, unite and fight’.

It is learnt that the employees will submit a memorandum to the interim government’s Information and Broadcasting Ministry’s Advisor Md. Mahfuz Alam; Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives Ministry’s Advisor Asif Mahmud Sajeeb Bhuiyan today demanding the repeal of the ordinance.

Earlier, on Sunday (June 1), they submitted a memorandum to Ali Imam Majumdar, Advisor to the Ministry of Food and Land; Muhammad Fawzul Kabir Khan, Advisor to the Ministry of Power, Energy and Mineral Resources; and Syeda Rizwana Hasan, Advisor to the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change and the Ministry of Water Resources. Incidentally, the ‘Government Jobs (Amendment) Ordinance, 2025’ was issued on May 25 with a provision that four types of disciplinary offenses can be dismissed by just a show cause notice without filing a departmental case. Before that, after the draft of the ordinance was approved in the Advisory Council meeting on May 22, all the organizations of officers and employees have been collectively protesting at the Secretariat since May 24, demanding the withdrawal of the law. They are calling this ordinance a regressive and black law.