Contrary to the labor shortage that occurs every year after the Lunar New Year, this year, most businesses in the country welcomed a large number of workers back to work in the early days of Spring.
Typically in Bac Ninh and Bac Giang, the number of workers returning to factories is almost 100%. Most enterprises embarked on production, rushing to complete orders to keep up with schedule. Workers entered the first shift of the year with an excited spirit.
As a key unit in industrial development of Bac Ninh province, this year, employees of Samsung factories (Yen Phong Industrial Park) have Tet holiday from January 29 to February 6. At the end of the Tet holiday, workers have basically returned to work.
According to Mr. Choi Joo Ho – General Director of Samsung Vietnam: With a high rate of employees returning to work, Samsung Vietnam does not experience a labor shortage after the Tet holiday. Although still affected by the Covid-19 epidemic, businesses continue to maintain their salary, bonus, and other remuneration policies in the period before and after Tet, to encourage and motivate employees to return to work as well. like continuing to stick with the enterprise for a long time.
It is known that during the last Lunar New Year, Samsung Vietnam arranged for employees who wish to stay in the dormitory to celebrate Tet safely and warmly. For employees returning to their hometown, before the Tet holiday, the company distributes test kits to employees and instructs them on how to test for Covid-19 at home before returning to work. At the same time, organize high-quality buses to bring employees home to celebrate Tet on the morning of January 29 and welcome back employees on February 6.
To ensure the safety of epidemic prevention and control, and production safety, businesses all check the body temperature of employees at the factory gate, distribute free masks, and require employees to wear masks throughout the process. working, distributing splash screens on buses, requiring employees to seriously perform daily medical declarations…
Not only in Bac Ninh, other businesses and business units across the country have also set the goal of successfully implementing production and business plans from the first day of the new year; at the same time, effectively implement measures to prevent and control the Covid-19 epidemic at enterprises after the Lunar New Year holiday, such as: Testing for SARS-CoV-2 for employees returning to work; develop plans, arrange accommodation areas for management and collection of F0 patients without symptoms as employees of enterprises; propagandize and disseminate to employees to strictly implement 5K at work as well as at accommodation, to ensure the effectiveness of epidemic prevention and control…
The high rate of return of workers to work is a good sign for the recovery of the labor market in 2022. To retain workers, industrial parks and enterprises have had many options such as raising wages, maintaining bonuses… This helps the labor market to become more stable and prosperous. However, according to experts, this is only one of the temporary solutions, in order to have a competitive labor market, workers must be well-trained in skills and quality. Enterprises need to coordinate with vocational education and training institutions, vocational guidance centers, and training centers to improve the quality of employees. This is a good solution to the problem in the long run.
