The Pran-RFL Group has recruited most of the workers of the five factories of Tuba Group who lost jobs in recent times after the company declared all its units closed.
Chorka Textile, a sister concern of the Pran-RFL Group, has recruited most of the Tuba workers. Others have been employed in other ventures of the Group.
Most of the Tuba Group workers were skilled when readymade garment (RMG) factories and other sectors have been operating with a 25 per cent shortage of skilled manpower. Because of this, the Tuba group workers easily got jobs at the Pran-RFL Group's garment factory.
In September, after payment of workers' due salaries, the owner of the Tuba Group could not start his factories and sold out all machinery and other instruments. As a result, hundreds lost their jobs.
"We have recruited almost all the workers of the five garment factories of the Tuba Group", Kamruzzaman Kamal, director of the PRAN-RFL Group, a leading food processing and plastic manufacturer, told the FE.
He said aiming to expand business, now the Group needs many skilled workers. As a result, skilled workers of closed Tuba factories are getting priority.
He said newly-recruited workers and employees have been appointed in several segments of the group like production, marketing and sales.
He said, "We've recruited a large number of workers in the Chorka Textile Ltd, a hundred per cent export-oriented manufacturer of underwear products."
He said, the Pran-RFL Group has more than one dozen businesses including light engineering, PVC fittings, plastics, food and beverage and agro-processing and textiles. There are more than 12,000 employees in the Group.
Shahidullah Azim, vice-president of the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) praised initiative of the Pran-RFL group to recruit hundreds of workers of the five factories of the Tuba Group.
He said there are many big manufacturing companies in the country. "They should also recruit jobless skilled workers of RMG sector for raising their productivity," he added.
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