Working Environment

Viyellatex group is constantly trying to improve it’s working environment to become the most aspiring organization in the country. Viyellatex has taken strategies to motivate the employees:
  • Positive reinforcement
  • Effective discipline and punishment
  • Treating people fairly
  • Satisfying employee needs
  • Setting work related goals
  • Restructuring jobs
  • Base rewords for job performance

Viyellatex group is also taking utmost effort to maintain Occupational safety and health; taking care of protecting the safety, health and welfare of people engaged in work or employment. The group also taking steps to protect co-workers, family members, employers, customers, suppliers, nearby communities, and other members of the public who are impacted by the workplace environment.

 
20% Higher Salary than Country’s Legal Standard
Viyellatex group paying 20% more waze than defined by Bangladesh labour law and BGMEA. Recently the Chairman of the group also declared distribution of profit to the workers. 5% of the profit will be distributed to the workers starting from July 2010.
Added Medical Service
Every officer and worker at Viyellatex group avail free medical assistance during working hours. The medical center consists of three doctors and two beds. Also there is an ultra sonogram machine for the pregnant workers. They are provided free ultra sonogram facility even when they are on leave.
Maternity Leave and Medical treatment for Pregnant Worker

The antenatal clinic has been introduced for its female worker since the inception of Viyellatex here in Gazipura, Tongi, Gazipur in 2003. Every female worker (who has been confirmed her job after six months) can get the maternity benefit. Which include 112 days leave with salary (according to her last three months salary structure). During the leave she can get the medical advice along with full medicine from the Viyellatex Medical Center. Ultra sonogram (twice) is also provided by Viyellatex free of cost. The payment is made 50% in advance and after joining the rest amount is given.

  • The female worker is entitled to get maternity benefit with 4 months leave when one’s job crosses 6 months of service.
  • Every pregnant worker whether permanent or new is getting Folic acid, Vitamin B complex and Zinc, Calcium etc. free of cost from the very beginning when pregnancy is detected.
  • There is a facility to have a pregnancy test in our Medical Center for the confirmation of pregnancy. Every permanent female worker is undergone for 2 ultrasonogram free of cost to see the condition of the baby and gestational age.

 

Child Care Facility for the female workers There is a child care center at Viyellatex campus to facilitate female workers having young baby to work smoothly. Two governesses are engaged in taking care of the babies of the workers. The company provides food and medicine free of cost at that time.

Modern HR Practice
 
Free Lunch for All Employee
 
Women Empowerment
In the developing countries like Bangladesh, women face the challenge to achieve equality in the critical areas like economic participation, economic opportunity, political empowerment, educational attainment and health and well-being.

The economic participation of women—their presence in the workforce in quantitative terms—is important not only for lowering the disproportionate levels of poverty among women, but also as an important step toward raising household income and encouraging economic development in countries as a whole.

Viyellatex Group ensures women empowerment by employing greater number of woman workers. Total number of employees in Viyellatex Group as of 7th December 2009 is 12588, out of which women workers are 6252 and male workers 6148.

Economic participation concerns not only the actual numbers of women participating in the labour force, but also their remuneration on an equal basis. Worldwide, outside of the agricultural sector, in both developed and developing countries, women are still averaging slightly less than 78% of the wages given to men for the same work, a gap which refuses to close in even the most developed countries.

In Viyellatex Group the women worker are getting equal salaries along with male workers; in addition they get some other facilities like maternity leave and child care center facilities.
Economic opportunity concerns the quality of women’s economic involvement, beyond their mere presence as workers. This is a particularly serious problem in developing countries like Bangladesh, where women may gain employment with relative ease, but where their employment is either concentrated in poorly paid or unskilled jobs, characterized by the absence of upward mobility and opportunity. This is most commonly the result of negative or obstructive attitudes, and of legal and social systems which use maternity laws and benefits to penalize women economically for childbirth and child care responsibilities, and discourage—or actively prevent—men from sharing family responsibilities.

Viyellatex Group is an excellent example of economic opportunity for women. Women workers not only employed in lower skilled areas, they are also employed in the technical and supervisory positions like Operator, Senior Operator, Sample Supervisor, Floor supervisor etc. according to their gain in skills. As an example, Khaleda Akhter who joined Viyellatex as Supervisor (worker category staff) has recently been promoted to management staff as Production Officer. A significant number of women are working in the management team in different sections - Production, Merchandizing, IT, HR etc.

Physically handicapped women are also very much sufferer in the society, they have difficulty in getting jobs let alone development of skills by appropriate training. Viyellatex Group employed eight physically handicapped workers and posted them in different areas according to their skills. Initial job training is also provided to them to upgrade their skills.