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Human Resource Management

Notes 15. In every factory where fifty workers are ordinarily employed, suitable restrooms must be
created.
16. In every factory suitable arrangements for sitting shall be provided and maintained for all
workers obliged to work in a standing position.
17. A safety officer must normally be appointed in every factory employing 250 workers.
18. The manager of every factory shall maintain a register of adult workers to be available to
the Labour Inspector at all times during working hours.
19. No child who has not completed his tenth year shall be required or allowed to work in any
factory.
20. No person shall be employed in any factory to lift, carry or move any load so heavy as to
be likely to cause him injury.

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Case Study The Case of Variable Pay

Nitin Arora was wrapping up for the day, when his phone rang.
"Hi, Nitin, Anil here. Can I pop in for a few minutes?"
"Yes, if you can be here in two minutes flat" Arora said.

"You got it," the other man said and hung up.
Anil Mathur was a Brand Manager at Care Soft, a large fast-moving consumer products
company. In fact, it was Arora who had, as the Chief of HR at Care Soft, recruited Mathur
from a medium-sized company in Mumbai. Over the years, they had built up a good
rapport. In any case, Arora was known to be one of the more friendly top executives in the
company. He had to be; he was after all the HR guy.
Arora had a vague idea of what Mathur might want to discuss, but he decided to frame his
replies as he went along.
As promised, the 36-year-old brand manager was in Arora's room in less than two minutes.
"When was the last time we had a semi-formal meeting like this one?" Arora asked his
guest.
"I don't remember, may be six months ago," Mathur replied.
"8:30 on a Friday evening, you've made me stay back. So this had better be important,"
Arora pretended to threaten his colleague.
"You are darn right, this is important," said Mathur. "I am unhappy with my pay hike for
last fiscal."

"But you got your letter a month ago, why are you bringing it up only now?" Arora asked.
"I have been thinking about it, and trying to find out if I am the only one feeling let down
by the new variable pay scheme," said Mathur.

A little over a year ago, Care Soft had decided to replace its fixed compensation system
with variable pay. In fact, the whole exercise was done in three months flat, and implemented
with little advance notice to the employees, who were not altogether surprised since the

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