HT Fashion: Actively practice people-oriented family-friendly policies
Reporter:Wan Han,Source:Textile and Apparel Weekly ,Date:August 14, 2024 Beijing

There are about 20 million people employed in China's textile and apparel industry, of which more than 60% are female employees. Most of them are migrant workers of marriageable age. In China, where the fertility rate continues to decline, raising children is not only a personal matter, but also an important social issue.

For Chinese textile and apparel companies, how can they provide stronger support for employees so that they have no worries, are physically and mentally healthy, and work with vitality and enthusiasm?

In 2022, the China National Textile and Apparel Council launched the "Building 'Family-Friendly' Textile and Apparel Enterprises" pilot project, dedicated to creating a more inclusive working environment and enhancing the cohesion, sense of gain and happiness of employees in the textile industry.



It is reported that the "family-friendly" initiative advocated by HT Fashion, a well-known Chinese clothing company, is a social practice that takes the family as a unit and always pays attention to the emotional communication and interaction of family members. Its purpose is to provide more family time, enhance the relationship between family members, and improve the overall happiness of the family by organizing various activities.

Adhere to the core concept of the HT Fashion: people-oriented

HT Fashion is a global clothing ODM supply chain group company with 17 wholly-owned subsidiaries. It has more than 3,000 employees, 80% of whom are female. Since its establishment, HT Fashion has always adhered to the people-oriented development concept. While the company itself is constantly developing, it is also gradually improving the employee welfare system, improving the quality of life of employees, and focusing on improving the happiness of employees.

Its "family-friendly" initiatives not only involve children's education and parent-child interaction, but also include husband-wife relationships, humanistic care and other aspects, fully meeting the emotional needs of family members.



To achieve this goal, HT Fashion has adopted a series of implementation strategies. First, in terms of corporate personnel management, HT Fashion has reduced the conflict between work and family by implementing flexible working hours and flexible work arrangements. For example, "Mom Classes" are set up in many factories to allow mothers to find a balance between work and family. This model allows them to go out to work during their children's school hours and have time to take care of their children before and after school.

In terms of work mode, piecework can not only meet the income needs of mothers, but also ensure that they have enough time to accompany their children to grow up. HT Fashion plans to promote this successful experience to the entire group, so that more mothers can work while not missing every important moment of their children's growth.

It is worth mentioning that the Friday afternoon of the last week of each month in HT Fashion is set as HT Family Day, with the aim of enhancing the parent-child relationship between employees and their families and enriching the family life of employees.

On this day, the company will organize various wonderful HT parent-child activities for employees and their children to participate and spend a happy time together. Through these activities, the company hopes to convey its care for employees and advocate a balance between work and family life.

It is understood that a special department within the HT Fashion is responsible for formulating policies, supervising implementation and adjusting and optimizing. By holding various training activities, employees' awareness and attention to family friendliness are enhanced. At the same time, it also actively cooperates with professional institutions to introduce advanced family care concepts and practical experience.

Family friendliness consolidates the foundation of the group's development

As a leading domestic enterprise group, HT Fashion has always regarded corporate social responsibility as its own responsibility. While pursuing economic benefits, it pays more attention to the quality of life of employees and is committed to creating a warm and harmonious working environment for employees.

In recent years, the group has added gyms and yoga rooms within the company, hired professional teachers to teach courses, and set up a water bar to provide afternoon tea for everyone, etc. These are all derived from the sense of social responsibility that HT Fashion has been practicing.




HT Fashion believes that building a family-friendly enterprise is an important way for enterprises to fulfill their social responsibilities. Building a family-friendly working environment, implementing a new management model, paying attention to the welfare of employees, and building a new labor relationship can not only promote the happiness of employees' families, but also attract and retain diverse talents for HT Fashion further enhancing the company's innovation ability and market competitiveness.

To this end, HT Fashion attaches great importance to the welfare of employees. In addition to purchasing five insurances and one fund for employees, it also purchases employer insurance, supplementary medical insurance and accidental injury insurance to fully protect the safety and health of employees at work and in life. Regularly organize employee health examinations and special lectures and training on women's health so that employees can better understand and maintain their own health, thereby improving work efficiency and quality of life. The company adheres to the people-oriented concept, cares for employees with practical actions, and creates a warm and harmonious working environment for employees.

Since HT Fashion launched the "family-friendly" initiative, the considerate policies have covered all stages of employees from being single to starting a family. For example, HT Fashion will carefully plan recruitment strategies based on employees' birth plans to ensure that employees can smoothly transition to different stages of life. Whether it is marriage leave, maternity leave or parental leave, they can ensure that they have a job to return to when they return, and there is no problem of job loss due to family responsibilities.

Strengthen psychological construction and child care work

In recent years, HT Fashion has experimented with "family-friendly" initiatives and achieved remarkable results. It not only effectively improves employees' job satisfaction and quality of life, but also invisibly improves the overall performance of the enterprise, enhances the cohesion and competitiveness of the HT, and thus achieves the common development and progress of the enterprise and employees.

In the future, HT Fashion will deepen investment in development plans that support "family-friendly", further strengthen employees' on-the-job training and education activities, effectively utilize existing partnerships with educational institutions, and encourage low-educated employees to continue their education to improve their academic qualifications and professional knowledge.

In addition, HT Fashion will build a psychological counseling room, which has been officially put into use and will be equipped with advanced equipment and professional psychological counselors to regularly provide professional services to employees to reduce work pressure, especially for the work and psychological pressure of working women. The group is also considering adding internal childcare projects and expanding early childhood education services to resolve the conflicts and pressures between family and work for employees, especially for the care of children during holidays.

In the days to come, HT Fashion will continue to adhere to the people-oriented concept, continuously optimize family-friendly policies, and create a more warm and harmonious working environment for employees.