Women losing more jobs to automation: CPD study

The mechanization of assembling lessened the female laborers' cooperation proportion in the article of clothing area to 60.8 percent in 2016 from 64 percent in 2015, as per an examination by the private research organization Center for Policy Dialog. 

The deceleration of female laborers' cooperation implied the proportion of male specialists is on the ascent in light of the fact that the production line proprietors think female specialists are not ready to deal with current apparatuses legitimately, said Khondaker Golam Moazzem, inquire about executive of the CPD. 

In 2015, the female to male laborers' support proportion was 64:36, however it has now declined to 60.8: 39.2, as indicated by Moazzem. 

The proprietors have been redesigning the processing plants by introducing present day hardware basically to keep up the strict lead-time set by global retailers. 

Somewhere in the range of 47.37 percent of substantial endeavors and 25 percent medium undertakings utilized propelled advancements, Moazzem said yesterday while showing the investigation on the continuous upgradation in article of clothing production lines. 

Female laborers are proportionately less educated about working distinctive machines contrasted and their male partners, as indicated by the investigation arranged by looking over 193 piece of clothing undertakings and 2,123 specialists. 

The investigation found that interest in the segment expanded after the Rana Plaza building breakdown. 

Both the business people and purchasers have kept their trust in Bangladesh's piece of clothing division, which made extra work when specialists were losing occupations because of conclusion of a decent number of production lines. 

Somewhere in the range of 41 percent of the undertakings reviewed work in leased spaces and around 34 percent in shared building. 

Around 16 percent of the business visionaries overviewed have said that they will either move or close the manufacturing plant inside 1 to 5 years. 

The work development in the piece of clothing undertakings has fairly decelerated as of late, the examination found. 

The normal yearly development of work in the example ventures amid 2012-16 was 3.3 percent, down from 4.01 percent amid 2005-2012. 

The review discovered 16 percent of the example undertakings utilized outside staff. As indicated by the study result, the specialists' month to month wage by and large is Tk 7,270 for male and Tk 7,058 for female, barring the rewards. 

A large portion of the organizations have laborers' investment councils (WPC); exchange associations are nearly non-existent in just 3.3 percent of the studied manufacturing plants. As per the corrected work act 2013, individuals from the WPC should be chosen. Approximately 68.9 percent of the WPCs specified that laborers in their manufacturing plants have been chosen by votes. 

As to exchange associations and wage climb of the specialists, Rehman Sobhan, director of the CPD, prompted the exchange association pioneers to remain joined together. 

"You have become a model of togetherness. You have to together deal," he stated, while refering to the major modern move made by the jute laborers in the 1960s as an illustrations. 

They could do this mutually on the grounds that they had become a model of togetherness, said Sobhan, who led the occasion. 

The greater piece of clothing bunches are well ahead in their work of present day advances, while the medium manufacturing plants are falling behind, said Debapriya Bhattacharya, recognized individual of the CPD. 

"Some little production lines should at long last escape this business," he said. 

Babul Akter, leader of the Bangladesh Garment and Industrial Workers Federation, said in spite of the fact that the quantity of exchange associations in the article of clothing division is high their quality is low. 

Akter requested Tk 16,000 as the lowest pay permitted by law in the following amendment of the wage structures. 

Siddiqur Rahman, leader of the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association, said the wage board will decide the pay of the laborers in light of the specialists' need and aggressiveness.