Salary cut is ‘New Normal’ now as still the majority of apparel and textile companies have not paid April month’s wage and salary to their workers and staff.
In such a scenario, it is really surprising and heartening to see that Ludhiana-based textile giant Trident Group has decided to increase the wage of its 12,000 workers. And it is massive at 38 to 48 per cent.
Workers under institutional level (IL-1), mainly operators getting Rs. 18,000 per month, witnessed an increase of Rs. 7,000 and will now get Rs. 25,000 per month.
Similarly, IL-2 (senior, skilled and experienced) operators and supervisors who were getting around Rs. 27,000 per month will now get Rs. 40,000 per month.
As per the company’s recent annual report in 2018-19, its manpower strength stood at 13,816 as compared to 12,579 in 2017-18.
Captain Amarinder Singh, CM, Punjab also appreciated this decision.
As per sources, these hikes will be applied from June and are expected to be retained there for always. “We have taken this decision to attract workers as we have good orders and facing labour shortage. Our object is to use at least 80 per cent capacity in the near future,” told a senior person of the company.
