Demand to repeal govt service ordinance: Employees resume protest at Secretariat
Staff Correspondent
Government employees resumed their protest at the Secretariat on Monday, demanding the immediate repeal of the recently promulgated Public Service (Amendment) Ordinance, 2025.
After the end of a 10-day Eid holiday, employees from various departments gathered at the Secretariat premises around 10:30 am and staged demonstrations.
They alleged that although a review committee led by the Law Adviser was formed to examine the ordinance, it has not engaged in any dialogue with the protesting organisations.
Md. Nazrul Islam, co-secretary general of the Secretariat Officers and Employees Unity Forum in Bangladesh, on Sunday announced the programme.
They will submit a memorandum to the advisers of the Home Affairs, Social Welfare, and Housing and Public Works ministries, he added.
Besides, the leaders of the forum will announce a new programme of action.
The government issued the Public Service (Amendment) Ordinance, 2025 on May 25, introducing a provision that allows termination of public servants without departmental proceedings in cases of four specific disciplinary breaches—requiring only a show-cause notice.
The draft of the ordinance was initially approved at the Advisory Council meeting on May 22.
Since May 24, all unions representing government officers and staff at the Secretariat have been jointly staging demonstrations demanding withdrawal of what they term a “repressive and undemocratic ordinance.”
