At the beginning of the year, craft villages and businesses lack labor.

(Baonghean) - After the long Tet holiday, craft villages and many businesses are short of workers. Especially for industries that need a lot of workers such as garment, seafood processing, bamboo and rattan weaving...

Workers work at the construction site of the Hoang Mai Town People's Committee headquarters.

Many state construction projects in Hoang Mai town are waiting for construction workers. Mr. Pham Van Dao - Director of Hong Dao Company Limited in Giat Town - Quynh Luu shared: We need over 250 workers. On the 8th day of Tet, the statistical work only reached over 150 workers.

In Nam Thinh shipbuilding village, Dien Ngoc commune, Dien Chau, there is also a shortage of workers for shipbuilding. Mr. Cham Van Hung, owner of a shipbuilding facility in Nam Thinh village, said: After Tet, the facility will receive orders to build 5 new ships with a capacity of 250 - 400 CV, according to the contract, it must be delivered within 3 months. To complete the project, more than 25 shipbuilders are needed. For a long time, there have been over 20 shipbuilders, but after Tet, the number has decreased to only about 12 workers. The reason is that some shipbuilders will take a break and rest until the end of January before returning to work, while some will move to new shipbuilding facilities in Nghi Thiet, Nghi Loc, and even Quang Ninh.

Shipbuilding in Dien Bich commune, Dien Chau.

Currently, Nam Thinh boat building village, Dien Ngoc Dien Chau has 9 boat repair and building facilities, of which Dien Ngoc commune has 9 facilities, with about 200 boat building workers, however, after Tet, the number of boat building workers is reduced to over 150 people.

After Tet, the labor shortage occurs most in enterprises in Nam Cam Industrial Park, Bac Vinh Industrial Park... Representative of Matrix Vinh Company, (Nam Cam Industrial Park) specializing in the production of teddy bear toys said: The company has over 3,000 workers, after Tet there is a shortage of about 150 workers. The reason is partly because workers have the habit of going to work late after Tet, some move to work in distant provinces.

BSE Vietnam Electronics Co., Ltd., a member of BSE Group of Korea, specializes in manufacturing mobile phone speakers in Area C - Nam Cam Industrial Park in the Southeast Economic Zone of Nghe An. It has over 6,000 employees, but after Tet, it was short of over 300 employees.

At BSE Vietnam Electronics Company Limited, there is a shortage of over 300 workers at the beginning of the year.

Nam Cam Industrial Park has about 16,000 workers. It is expected that after Tet, the labor shortage of enterprises in the industrial parks of the Economic Zone will be about 3% of workers (in 2015, there was a 10% labor shortage).

Faced with the above situation, businesses must proactively seek and attract workers in many forms. The Management Board of the Southeast Economic Zone will also support businesses by distributing documents and advertising labor recruitment in localities, coordinating with districts to arrange locations for labor recruitment. Through job training centers, vocational training centers to recruit workers for businesses. In fact, some businesses have good policies to retain workers such as Tien Phong Plastic Company has invested in building dormitories for workers.

The solution to the labor shortage is that businesses need to take care of workers' lives and take appropriate steps to truly ensure the material and spiritual lives of workers.

Van Truong