"Hunger" for labor in the Textile industry

(Baonghean) - "Hunger" for labor is a common situation occurring to enterprises in the textile and garment sector of the whole country in general and in Nghe An in particular at present. Although the conditions (documents, skills...) are not too strict, textile and garment enterprises still have to face the reality of difficulty in recruiting many workers.

Minh Anh - Kim Lien Garment Joint Stock Company located in Bac Vinh Industrial Park is one of the strong enterprises in Nghe An in the field of garment production for export. Currently, the Company is investing in expanding its production line, so it needs to recruit a lot of workers (500 skilled garment workers and a high-quality labor training class of 100 people...). Along with the salary based on products from 2.5 - 3.5 million VND/month, the Company also rewards workers with high achievements in production, supports gasoline money, 13th month salary... In particular, for apprentices, within 2 months, they are supported with more than 1 million VND/month and other sources of support. Despite such a mechanism, businesses still find it difficult to recruit enough workers to meet production requirements.

HAI VI Kim Lien Company attracts 2,500 contract workers

Hoang Thi Loan Textile Joint Stock Company is currently in the final stage of the investment project to upgrade its operational capacity. It is known that Hanoi Textile Joint Stock Corporation invested in upgrading the capacity of Vinh Spinning Factory (capacity of nearly 40,000 spindles) into an export yarn production facility with 78,000 spindles. Received additional warehouse frame 2 in Dong Van (Ha Noi)Male) to install additional equipment to expand the capacity of the pile drive line to meet production needs. The factory upgrade investment is expected to be completed in July 2012 and put into production in August 2012. To meet the needs of the new production line, the Company is also recruiting more than 300 workers.

With the reality of the textile industry in recent times, there are many ways to explain why workers are not "interested" in this profession. But in the end, it is because the income of workers is not satisfactory, or in other words, workers find it difficult to live on their salary. Unattractive income, great pressure on work, combined with unsynchronized investment in infrastructure, especially the issue of housing for workers, policies... have made textile enterprises in Vinh City always in a state of labor shortage. Obviously, the demand for labor recruitment of textile enterprises located in Vinh City will increase, but this human resource is increasingly narrowing. And one thing that can be foreseen is that enterprises will constantly "starve" for labor, if there is no innovative policy on income, suitable regime to retain textile workers in the city.

Recently, the trend of textile and garment investors is to focus on building factories "at the base". This is proven by the textile and garment projects invested in districts.MaleDan, Do Luong, Dien Chau (Anh Son). Or Vietnam Textile and Garment GroupMaleis also promoting the project to build a textile cluster inMaleGuitar...

Among the many benefits from investing in infrastructure (low investment rate, convenient site clearance, open policies and mechanisms, convenience in labor and living conditions for workers...), investors feel most secure about the abundant rural labor force. HAIVI KIM LIEN Company Limited invests in Nam Giang -MaleThe group to build a system of garment factories with sports products exported to the US and EU markets. With a large scale of investment, modern production technology, after nearly 4 months of completing the investment in building the factory, installing machinery and equipment, the Company has a team of workers and laborers up to 2,500 people. With this number, if in the city area, it is difficult to recruit for a period of time. It is known that the current number of workers are children of the countryside.MaleThe herd accounts for 90% of the Company's workers.

The way that HAIVI KIM LIEN Company Limited and some other businesses are doing (building factories in rural areas) is very necessary to overcome the current labor shortage in the Textile and Garment industry, reduce pressure on the city, and contribute to attracting labor force in agriculture, one of the goals of building new rural areas.

Hoang Vinh