The document discusses employee relation problems and collective bargaining in Bangladesh's garments sector, which is the largest exporting industry and faces issues like unskilled workers, poor working conditions, and low wages. Collective bargaining is defined as a process of negotiations between employers and employee representatives to set agreements on work conditions. The garments industry has experienced significant growth but collective bargaining is not effectively used to negotiate conflicts between labor and management.

1. Employee relation problem in garments sector
&
Also collective bargaining

2. Prepared For :
Mr. Farhad Hossain
Senior Lecturer
Prepared by: Name ID
Md.Iqbal Hussain Khan 1103010010
Sami-ur-Rahman 1103010059

4.  Readymade Garments Industry is the leading foreign
currency earning sectors of Bangladesh
The annual export income of garments sector is driven
from two sources one is woven garments and others is knit
wear.
They use high tech machineries to produce a quality
garments product.
The Readymade garments should improve their product
quality, packing system, internal environment, and other
merchandising activities to satisfy their foreign buyers.

6. The tremendous success of readymade garment
exports from Bangladesh over the last two decades
has surpassed the most optimistic expectation
 Today the apparel export sector is a multi-billion-
dollar manufacturing and export industry in the
country
 The development of the apparel export industry has
had far-reaching implications for the society and
economy of Bangladesh.

7. Broad objective
• To know the employee relation ,problem in the
garments industry
• And also the collective bargaining
Specific objective:
• The key objectives To know the duties and
responsibilities of the worker.
• To know the overall internal and external
environment of “Garments Industry of

8. Employee relation in garments sector
• The relationship between employers and employees is
known as industrial relations (IR) where employers
include the owners and its representatives comprising
management personnel and where employee means the
operatives and workers who have no decision making
power
• Garments industry is one of the important industries in
Bangladesh having nearly 13% contribution to the Gross
Domestic Product
• This industry employs near about 5 million people and it
is the second largest contributor to foreign currency
reserve after remittance in terms of net of export and
net of remittance.

9. Employee problem in garments sector
• Raw materials
• Unskilled workers:
• Improper working environment
• Lack of managerial knowledge
• Wages
• Insufficient of loan
• Working hours
• Safety Problems
• Political crisis
• Lead time

10. Define collective bargaining
Collective bargaining is a process of negotiations
between employers and the representatives of a
unit of employees aimed at reaching agreements
that regulate working conditions.
Collective agreements usually set out-
• wage scales
• working hours
• Training
• health and safety
• Overtime
• grievance mechanism

11. Functions of CBA
• Undertake collective bargaining with the employer
on matters connected with employment, non-
employment, terms of employment and conditions of
work.
• Represent all or any of the workmen in any work
proceedings.
• Give notice of strike according to the provisions of
the chapter.
• Nominate representatives of worker on the Board of
Trustees of any welfare institutions or provident
funds, and of the workers participation fund
established under it.
• Undertake legal proceedings on behalf of single or
collective workers.

12. Characteristics of Collective Bargaining
• Equality in strength
• Voluntary endeavor
• Flexibility
• Joint and amicable settlement
• Continuous affair
• Power relationship
• Bipartite process

13. Collective Bargaining Process
1dentification of the problem
Preparing for negotiations
Negotiation of agreement
Implementation of the contract

14. Types of collective bargaining
• Distributive bargaining: The parties try to maximize
their respective gains. They try to settle economic
issue such as wages, bonus, etc.
• Cooperative bargaining: There may be circumstance
in which the very existence of the organization is at
stake.
• Productivity bargaining: Sometimes worker wages
and benefit are linked to productivity.
• Composite bargaining: This is a proactive system of
collective bargaining .In this method lobar bargain for
wages as usual outgoes a step further demanding
equity in matters relating to employment levels.

15. Levels of Collective Bargaining
• Plant level: At plant level bargaining,
representatives of the workers’ union
negotiate with the representative of the
employers.
• Industry level: Employer of several units in
the same industry band together and form an
association, which negotiates with a
federation of trade unions, usually called craft
federation, having a similar status.
• National Level: The representatives of the
trade union and of the employee at the
national level negotiate and arrive at a
settlement.

17. The Ready-Made Garments (RMG) industry occupies a
unique position in the Bangladesh economy. It is the
largest exporting industry in Bangladesh, which
experienced phenomenal growth during the last 25
years. And the collective bargaining, actually in fact
is never used as an effective means of negotiation
between labor and management on matter of
conflicting interest

19. Questi0n Please???