Staff Reporter:
The Bangladesh Secretariat Officers and Employees United Council yesterday staged a protest at the Bangladesh Secretariat, demanding the cancellation and withdrawal of the draft of the ‘Government Job (Amendment) Ordinance, 2025’.
The protest came in response to the interim government’s advisory council approving the draft amend-ment to the Government Job Act, 2018 during a meeting on Thursday.
The council termed the ordinance “repressive” and a “black law”, urging the authorities to scrap it im-mediately.
The council’s president Md Badiul Kabir said, “The draft includes some restrictive provisions from out-dated special laws, creating avenues for easily punishing or even dismissing government officials and employees.”
He further stated that the proposed ordinance contradicts the Constitution and should be reconsidered.
“The Government Job Act, 2018 already outlines all relevant codes of conduct and necessary provisions. Adding these new repressive clauses through an ordinance is unacceptable. This is a black law, and we demand its immediate withdrawal,” he added.
