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Friend: You are running a very big cell phone company in
Bangladesh. Though there are strikes, blockades, political instabilities, how
is it possible friend?
XYZ_Org: Hahaha!! Bangladesh is a country of possibilities. Everything is possible here if you know the
tricks. On the other hand, business is very risky, nothing is possible here if you
apply general rules.
Materials are cheap, labors are cheap, and everything is
cheap here. You know that labor cost is lowest in the world. You can get many industrious,
competent, skilled employees with a very low payment. They work hard, but take
less.
Pause..
You said right! Instabilities! Yes, huge instabilities. Laws
are not stable here. If you steal, nobody can catch. You can make big money
here. Haha..
Friend : How many employees do you have in your company?
XYZ_Org: Approximately 2000. But all are not directly my
employees. I have some permanent, some contractual and some are outsourced
employees.
Friend: Why is that? Contractual, outsourced!!
Are they foreigners? Don’t you need those employees always?
XYZ_Org: No, they all are Bangladeshi. It’s my wish!
They are working full
time and almost permanently. However, I do not need to give them good salary
and extra facilities.
More than 160 million people are living in Bangladesh. They do not
need a high standard living.
Friend: What about foreigners? Don’t you have foreign employees?
If I work for you in Bangladesh, shall I need to have a low standard living?
XYZ_Org: Sure I do have. You do not need to have a
low-standard living. I have different salary structures for foreigners. Usually,
white foreigners get 5 - 50 times higher salary than Bangladeshi employees.
Friend: Hmm. .. How can I imagine that my company is running
by other companies' employees? Are they giving you high industry, good decisions?
If they do not perform well, why don’t you fire them and
recruit some competent employees?
XYZOrg: Listen! You have to be very clever as you want to
serve in Bangladesh.
They are performing well. I need them forever if I can pay
low salary and extract high profit.
Simply, renew the contract for three to twelve months either
by the same company or by another company.
You do not need to give them good salary. Don’t need to give
them extra facilities like provident fund, gratuity, profit sharing, bonus etc.
These give you extra money.
Friend: What about the laws of Bangladesh? BTRC, Labor –laws?
XYX_Org: Who cares? Nobody is bounded by laws. Even not the
local and other multi-national companies are confined by laws.
My profit is $300 million to $500 million every day. If you pay good
amount of money to legal bodies, they will hide everything. Nobody can catch.
Friend: $300 million to $500 million every day! What about the
tax? How much do you need to pay?
XYZ_Org: I already said
to you, they can hide everything. I do not need to disclose my profit to
locals. Even if the locals do understand my profit, they can’t proof it. I am
that much clever.
Friend: So, you are a
big guy now. You do not need to pay government tax too. You can steal money as
much as possible by depriving employees who are working for you and for your
company. How interesting!!
To be continued........................
References:
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1.
http://news.priyo.com/story/2010/jul/25/govt-sues-%E2%80%98outsourcing-cos%E2%80%99-over-employee-rights-denial
2.
http://www.supplymanagement.com/news/2015/burma-bangladesh-and-cambodia-have-worlds-lowest-labour-costs
3. https://openblogbd.wordpress.com/2012/07/26/grameenphone-management-employees-dispute-labour-rights-and-others/
4.http://www.dhakatribune.com/juris/2015/feb/12/legal-status-employment-bonds
Legal status of employment
bonds
5.
http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2014/dec/03/un-human-rights-business-government-policies
Whose job is it to protect human rights?
