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The revenue apparel from garment and textiles industry in Indonesia reaching almost USD 16 billion (2018). It offered employment to 4.2 million people in 2016, majority of them women. However, finding shows that the industry is plagued by poor working conditions, such as long hours, low wages and insufficient occupational safety and health standards and abusive practices such as the verbal and sexual harassment. From previous studies showed that high commitment HR practices were positively related with job satisfaction through mediating effect of psychological contract and job security. High commitment HR practices were positively related to employee performance through the mediating effect of perceived organizational support (Latorre et al., 2016). Resilience which known as phenomenon with positive psychological capacity to recover, to rise again from adversity, uncertainty, conflict, failure or even positive change, progress and increased responsibility, positively related with job satisfaction (Siu et al., 2009; Youssef & Luthans, 2007). Empowerment was positively related with job satisfaction (Kirkman & Rossen, 1999). Then, job satisfaction is negatively related to turnover intention and positively related to employee performance (Allen et al., 2003; Latorre et al., 2016). This study is conceptual paper which explore employment relationship and job satisfaction in garment factories.