Businesses face difficulties in recruitment in Hai Phong
High orders, high recruitment demand but scarce labor force make many businesses in Hai Phong have to work overtime, working overtime even on holidays to keep up with production progress.
At Tongwei Vietnam Electronics Co., Ltd. (An Duong Industrial Park), due to the need to expand production and abundant orders by 2027, the Company needs to recruit more than 200 workers. To attract workers, the company offers a series of attractive regimes and allowances such as seniority bonuses of 300,000 - 1,000,000 VND/person, boarding house support of 500,000 - 1,000,000 VND, Q4 bonus. 2026 1,000,000 VND/person/month... Newly joining workers are rewarded up to 7 million VND/person.
Along with An Duong Industrial Park, Horn Vietnam Co., Ltd. is also facing a labor shortage. Currently, this company is still short of about 300 workers serving production.
In the context of labor competition, the company applies many attractive welfare regimes such as attendance allowance of 1 million VND/person/month, gasoline allowance of 350,000 - 550,000 VND/month, boarding house allowance of 500,000 - 600,000 VND/month, Chinese language allowance up to 2 million VND/month, output bonus up to 3 million VND... However, businesses all share the situation that the number of applicants does not meet the demand.
According to the Hai Phong Economic Zone Management Board, in 2026, industrial parks in the area will still lack about 120,000 workers, mainly concentrated in the electronics, mechanical engineering, supporting industries, textiles, garments, and footwear industries... Most units are facing difficulties in recruitment. Therefore, along with finding out-of-province labor sources, some businesses have to arrange overtime to track order progress.
As at Horn Vietnam Co., Ltd., workers work overtime for 2 hours/day (from Monday to Saturday). As for Tongwei Electronics Co., Ltd., in the past 2 months, workers have worked overtime for 2-2.5 hours/day, working overtime all weekends to ensure progress. Overtime arrangement and overtime salary regimes are also applied according to legal regulations, ensuring workers' rights.
According to representatives of the Trade Union Board of Hai Phong Industrial Park, at the end of the year, many businesses mobilize workers to work overtime to serve production. In order to stabilize labor relations, the City Trade Union has also directed grassroots trade unions to grasp the situation of overtime at enterprises to supervise implementation based on legal regulations. Overtime must have the consent of employees, must be clear in content, true to the nature of voluntariness, and specifically state the time, location, and overtime work.
Businesses fully implement the overtime salary regime; ensure mid-hour breaks, weekly breaks, lunch meals, safety conditions, occupational hygiene and care for workers' health. Along with that, proactively coordinate with grassroots trade unions to organize dialogues at the workplace on production needs, labor arrangement plans, additional recruitment, shift arrangement, labor regulation between departments and solutions to reduce dependence on prolonged overtime.
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