1. Case 1
 Case- Story
Story Character
 Tahera
 a low paid sewing machine operator
 youngest among 4 children
 married to a day laborer at age of 16
 started working at the age of 17

2. Main Issues of Tahera
 8 hour shift per day (Labor law)
 Unpaid 21-30 extra hours per month
 Night shift allowed (Labor law)
 another form of forced over time
 Late Payment
 At least one week delay
 Deduction of Wages
 Working hours reduced.
Source : (Blanch, Alam, & Smith, July
2011)

3. Cont…
 Skill/Competency-Based Pay Plans (Between Women)
 Young preferred
 Single preferred
Source : (Chowdury, 2010)
Discussion Question
 What are the issues associated with strategic pay planning
responsible for the recent incidents?
 How are they affecting the productivity of the company?
 How to deal with them to solve the problems in order to improve
company’s productivity by efficiently using Strategic pay planning?

4. Case Solutions
Solution of question one
Issues associated with strategic pay planning
 Issue One: Legal considerations
 Working hours
 Forced over time
 Late Payment
 Deduction of Wages
 Issue two: Compensation policies
 Skill/Competency-Based Pay Plans

5. How are they affecting
Solution of question two
 Dissatisfied and De-motivated
workers
 absence of labor standards
monitoring system
 ineffective building codes
 poor enforcement and outdated
labor laws
 a lack of awareness of labor rights
among workers

6. How to deal with them
Solution of question three
Naïve Solutions
 Recommendations to labor law reform
 Other countries with similar situations like Cambodia, Srilanka etc
 Workers should be properly given
 rest
 legal day offs
Workforce is the heart of any organization.
 be helpful for the productivity of this industry.

7. Solutions from the empirical research year wise
 strict implementation and monitoring
of Regulatory measures (Alam, 2004)
 Strengthening
 Social compliance issues and
 labor standards
to improve overall working condition.(Khan, 2006)

8. Solution from Expertise
 Expertise
 Former Ambassador to the USA Humayun Kabir
 (CPD) Executive Director Mustafizur Rahman
 (IAB) President Mobashwer Hossain
 BGMEA President Md Shafiul Islam Mohiuddin
 Their solution
 Compliance and improved security system
How : Setting up Garment Village
Source : ( Daily Star)