Abstract:
PURPOSE
Textile industry is one of the largest manufacturing industry in Pakistan and the textile
demand in the world has increased massively in the last few decades. Several foreign
retailers are outsourcing textile and garments from Pakistan. Along with the quality these
retailors are highly concerned with ethical and social issues of the suppliers. The code of
conduct formulated as a supply chain policy, defines minimum standards of ethical and
responsible behavior, which must be met by the manufacturers and suppliers
corporate culture, firmly based on human rights and labor rights, which includes child labor,
forced labor, compensation, working hours, environment, health and safety.
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METHODOLOGY & DESIGN
This research investigates the impact of problems regarding the working hours of employees
and its proper management in textile factories. More than 80% of the workers in textile
factory are hired on contract basis. Managing records, payrolls and timings of the contract
labor are the most difficult tasks for factories to meet social compliance requirements of
international buyers. Requirements of social compliance include existing prevailing practices
of industry to handle social compliance requirement for contract labor, payroll mechanism,
time, attendance and record management to meet all the requirements and real understanding
of contract labor management.
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FINDINGS
The research hypothesis suggests that manual recording system and improper mantainence of
social compliance of working hours of employees will lead to workers working off the clock
problems, overtime premium issues and prevalence of unclear wage system in factories,
mismanagement of which leads to critical issues during social compliance audit as far as
ethical and social compliance is concerned
