Dear experts,
How can we retain or attract daily wage laborers post-lockdown (COVID-19)? What are the ways to get them back to work in this scary situation? My company is a food manufacturing company with daily workers operating in all three shifts, totaling around 1000. Please suggest.
Thank you.
From India, Pune
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How can we retain or attract daily wage laborers post-lockdown (COVID-19)? What are the ways to get them back to work in this scary situation? My company is a food manufacturing company with daily workers operating in all three shifts, totaling around 1000. Please suggest.
Thank you.
From India, Pune
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Since there is no mention of the ratio between the permanent workers and the daily wagers in your post, and the staggering total number of daily wagers working in the three shifts a day would certainly raise a reasonable doubt in everyone about whether you run the entire industry 24X7 with daily paid labor. Permanency of a job is the most effective factor in creating a sense of belongingness in the minds of the working masses to be loyal to the employer. The seasonal nature of production, coupled with unskilled and repetitive operations, may demand daily wagers in large numbers for the sake of flexibility in hiring and firing. In such a case, you would certainly need a well-planned production schedule in every season depending on the anticipated availability and procurement of raw materials and their effective processing to meet the off-season market demand.
Therefore, in my opinion, the preference you give to such daily wagers in regular employment of the company, how far your wage rates are over and above the daily market rates of the locality, availability of benefits like subsidized canteen facilities, the average number of days per month you are providing them work, whether such daily wagers are directly employed by your company or engaged through contractors, and the availability of alternative employments in the hinterland are the major factors to be considered in devising an attractive daily wager policy.
More particularly, how you dealt with them during the COVID-19 lockdown is a major factor in creating a sense of loyalty and gratitude in them towards the Company.
From India, Salem
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6108Therefore, in my opinion, the preference you give to such daily wagers in regular employment of the company, how far your wage rates are over and above the daily market rates of the locality, availability of benefits like subsidized canteen facilities, the average number of days per month you are providing them work, whether such daily wagers are directly employed by your company or engaged through contractors, and the availability of alternative employments in the hinterland are the major factors to be considered in devising an attractive daily wager policy.
More particularly, how you dealt with them during the COVID-19 lockdown is a major factor in creating a sense of loyalty and gratitude in them towards the Company.
From India, Salem
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