Restructuring labor, adapting to the new situation - Final episode: Letting repatriates settle down in their hometown
(Baonghean.vn) - Anticipating the difficulties when most workers far from home have to return home to avoid the epidemic, along with advising the province on immediate support solutions, the Department of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs has proactively conducted a survey to understand the thoughts and aspirations of repatriated workers.
The pressure is mounting
Before the Government passed Resolution No. 128 on transferring the country to a new state,proactively adapt to living with the Covid-19 epidemic, instead of focusing on controlling and fighting the epidemic in the direction of zero Covid-19, in the minds of manyrepatriated workersalso determined to only temporarily return to their hometowns to take refuge and hope that the Covid-19 epidemic will end soon so that they can return to their old places of work. However, due to the complicated and prolonged developments of the Covid-19 epidemic, workers are forced to change to adapt.
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| Immediately after the epidemic was controlled, the industry had solutions to ensure social security for repatriated workers. In the photo: Connecting job counseling for workers after training at the Vietnam - Korea Vocational Technical College. Photo courtesy |
Mr. Khanh is a freelance worker, a phone repairman in Thuan An City (Binh Duong), from Nghia Khanh Commune, Nghia Dan. He said that in early August, he and his family returned to their hometown to avoid the epidemic and thought that when the epidemic was under control, they would return to the South to live and work, but now 3 months have passed and the epidemic has not subsided, at home there is no job, no income.
Similarly, Ms. Tran Thi Nho, a freelance worker in Nghia Hoan commune (Tan Ky), has returned from Binh Phuoc province for 4 months now. Because she has not had a job since the quarantine, she is quite stressed. She was advised to join a garment company that is recruiting workers in Tan Ky district, but she found it unsuitable because she is old. She confided that her biggest wish now is to find a job near home to earn an income, because now she has no fields or means for agricultural production in her hometown...
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| Unemployed workers returning home complete documents to receive payment of benefits at the provincial Social Insurance. Photo: Nguyen Hai |
The story of Mr. Khanh and Ms. Nho is also the common situation of nearly hundreds of thousands of workers returning home to avoid the epidemic.
Mr. Tran Quoc Tuan - Director of Nghe An Employment Service Center shared: When the Government decided to move to a new normal state, proactively living with the Covid-19 epidemic, the company connected and restarted a number of labor export orders and businesses from other provinces. However, due to the epidemic, countries and businesses are very cautious in accepting or reopening airlines.
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| Some workers from the border highlands, although having just returned home, are eager to find job opportunities at the connection fair in Tuong Duong, Ky Son. Photo: Tien Dong |
A representative of a textile company preparing to participate in a job fair in Anh Son said: taking advantage of the time near Tet when repatriated workers do not want to go to other provinces to work far away, the company participated in the fair to look for skilled workers to supplement the source for new factories in Tan Ky and Do Luong. However, through contact, many people seem not ready and have the mentality of waiting for the epidemic to end before returning to their old workplace.
Currently, some provinces such as Hai Duong, Bac Giang, Quang Ninh... with a large number of Nghe An workers also implement a strict policy of controlling foreign workers, so workers are not interested in returning. Since September, the Center as well as some labor supply companies have connected with a number of recruitment orders to work in industrial parks in the provinces but have had to temporarily stop accepting them. At the beginning of December, when the new variant of Covid-19, Omicron, appeared, some countries that are markets receiving our country's labor exports have closed their flights, so export opportunities for workers in general and repatriated workers in particular are more difficult and have to wait longer.
Housing for repatriated workers
According to survey data from the Provincial Employment Service Center, by the end of November, the province had 45,292 repatriated workers registering their job search needs with localities. Currently, the center has connected and surveyed 278 businesses, identifying 68,000 job positions to be recruited. Of these, 230 businesses in the province recruited 37,554 workers and 48 businesses from other provinces registered to recruit 30,362 workers.
Currently, some enterprises in the field of leather shoes and textiles such as Nam Thuan,An Hung, Minh Anh, Matrix Vinh Company, Kido Vinh Company... are in need of recruiting a large number of workers, up to thousands of workers/unit. In addition, 185 enterprises outside the industrial park also need to recruit 23,833 workers.
Restructuring labor, adapting to the new situation - Part 1: Ensuring social security for repatriated workers
(Baonghean.vn) - The fourth wave of the Covid-19 pandemic has had a strong impact on the country's socio-economic life, including the shortage of labor due to population migration, forcing millions of workers to return home.
Sharing about human resource needs, representative of the Management BoardSoutheast Economic Zonesaid that currently, most of the workers who were laid off due to the epidemic have returned to work. Therefore, enterprises in the Southeast Economic Zone do not have a shortage of workers like other provinces. However, there are still 45 enterprises in industrial parks that need to recruit 14,171 workers. In the near future, some new enterprises of the Economic Zone will come into operation, so the recruitment demand will be higher.
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| The industrial garment factory in Nghi Trung is nearing completion and is expected to recruit over 1,000 workers from Nghi Loc and neighboring areas. Photo: Nguyen Hai |
According to a survey by the Department of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs, out of a total of 165,000 people of working age in the southern provinces returning to their hometowns, 30,566 people are not ready to return to work or want to stay in their hometowns but find work themselves (40.29% of workers returning to their hometowns) and only 45,292 people in need of work have registered with the commune and district. Of these, 20,749 people want to find work outside the province, while only nearly 25,000 people want to find work in the province, so they need to be given priority consideration.
With about 25,000 workers out of a total of over 45,000 repatriated workers in need of jobs in the province, the Labor Department can connect immediately. However, because most repatriated workers have long been self-employed and untrained, in order to be recruited by businesses, workers must proactively meet the requirements of employers and demonstrate their determination to change to adapt to new jobs. There are currently many new job positions available, but whether or not to work is the right of the worker.
From practice injob search networking fairIn Ky Son and Tuong Duong districts, which the Center recently organized in early October, more than 5,000 people came to the fair to look for job opportunities, but the ability to connect and find jobs after consulting was not much. While businesses from other provinces have demand, workers are not ready. Businesses in the province have many jobs, but workers are not interested, because salaries are still low compared to other provinces; housing and food costs are high while income is not enough to cover expenses...
Mr. Tran Phi Hung recommends that workers who want to find a job soon should contact the Provincial Employment Service Center or businesses for support, career change or to improve skills and work discipline, and adapt to new jobs. Thanks to maintaining connections with the Department of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs of the districts, right after completing the quarantine, hundreds of repatriated workers in Que Phong and Quy Chau districts found new jobs in districts and towns in the province.
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| The textile industry is a source of employment for many workers. In the photo: Production at the HaiVina Kim Lien garment factory, Nam Dan. Photo by Viet Phuong |
Mr. Doan Hong Vu - Director of the Department of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs said: To solve employment for workers in the period of 2021-2025, the industry has advised the province to issue a Project to solve employment for workers in the new period with support channels of resources up to 640 billion VND, of which nearly 40 billion VND is direct investment and 600 billion VND from other sources to support job creation.
However, in the face of the complicated situation of repatriated workers and the development of the Covid epidemic, to adapt to the new situation, along with implementing measures to solve employment according to the province's Project, the industry is researching and advising the province on solutions to attract, arrange and effectively use the provincial labor force.
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| Workers register their wishes to find new jobs at the Provincial Employment Service Center right after switching to the new status at the end of November 2021. Photo by Nguyen Hai |
Currently, in 2021, due to the impact of the Covid-19 epidemic, traditional job fairs and consulting channels cannot be organized. Therefore, the industry is strengthening online job transaction channels, via social networks; continuing to improve the quality and efficiency of job placement after consulting; strengthening propaganda and connection so that repatriated workers can find jobs in their homeland and settle down, without having to leave their homeland.
From the source of the Employment Project, the province annually supports finding and solving new jobs for 37,000 - 40,000 workers. In the first 11 months of this year, despite difficulties, the whole province has solved jobs for 32,500 people, reaching 85% of the plan, of which, 7,887 workers were sent to work abroad, reaching 63.1% of the plan. It is estimated that in 2021, the whole province solved jobs for 38,850 people, reaching 100% of the plan.