Transparency and Empowered Workers Improves Fashion Industry. Some of India’s textile factories are finding that improving their employees’ lives is good for the bottom line.
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Rajat Jaipuria of Rajlakshmi Mills is a third-generation textile manufacturer who runs three fair-trade factories in Kolkata and one in Delhi, employing about 1,000 workers total. Jaipuria has committed his company to organic cotton, higher wages and improved benefits in search of more productive employees and lower employee turnover. Today, Jaipuria’s workers are offered a host of benefits on top of their daily earnings, including health insurance, pensions, subsidized lunch on-site, and transportation to and from work. The employees receive an annual bonus plus paid leave and holidays adding up to nearly 30 days off each year.
Ethical fashion benefits from employee engagement: B Magazine
Transparency and Empowered Workers Improves Fashion Industry. Some of India’s textile factories are finding that improving their employees’ lives is good for the bottom line.
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This article originally appeared as part of Ethical Fashion Benefits from Employee Engagement in the Summer 2016 issue of B Magazine.