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Human Resources In Fashion
By admins | November 19, 2008
Does your company have an HR department? Who do you go to if you’re being treated unfairly or even illegally? What about hiring and firing, whose responsibility is that? Odds are if you work at an apparel company in NYC, the answer is either: “It depends” or “I have no freaking idea”. With the exception of a few larger corporations most companies in the garment center have no human resource department. Now many garment center businesses are just too small to warrant the expense, which is understandable when you only have a dozen employees. In these cases the owners are usually very hands on and issues generally don’t get swept under the rug. The biggest problem in our industry is the mid-size companies, with anywhere from 50 to 350 employees and no HR personnel.
Human Resources provide many key functions to insuring a company’s success. If we are ever going to reduce the high turnover rate in fashion and improve working conditions (including compensation) this issue needs to be addressed. Human Resources can handle; training employees, evaluations and reviews, employees and labor relations, confidential employee disputes, career development, bonuses and promotions, and much more. The #1 reason that employees resign from any position is unhappiness with their supervisor. Often the owner, CEO or VP is unaware of any problem until an exit interview, which is really too late. These issues can be avoided by having an accessible human resource department. Depending on the size of the company one person may be your entire HR department and that is perfectly acceptable. This brings us to another common mistake in the garment center, when a company has a HR rep but no one is aware of it. Your Human Resource manager should hold that title; not be the boss’s secretary, the payroll guy, or the owner’s brother who comes in from Jersey once a month. Seriously, this is a full-time job and it’s desperately needed in the tumultuous fashion industry.
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Topics: Human Resources, fashion industry, garment center, jobs | 2 Comments » 
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