Lack of labor, many businesses in Hai Phong mobilize workers to work overtime
Hai Phong - Orders are abundant while labor recruitment is difficult, many businesses in Hai Phong have to work overtime even on weekends to ensure progress.
Businesses launch incentives but still find it difficult to recruit workers
According to the Trade Union of Tongwei Electronics Vietnam Co., Ltd., due to the need to expand production and abundant orders by 2027, the Company needs to recruit more than 200 workers. To attract labor, 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... The company also "launches" bonuses for newly joining workers up to 7 million VND/person, however, recruitment is still difficult due to labor shortages.
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 also 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 allowance of 500,000 - 600,000 VND/month, Chinese language allowance up to 2 million VND/month, output bonus up to 3 million VND, efficiency up to 2.5 million VND... However, the number of applicants does not meet the demand.
Information from the Trade Union Board of Hai Phong City Labor Federation Industrial Park, currently, industrial parks in the area are still short of about 120,000 workers, mainly concentrated in electronics, mechanical engineering, supporting industries, textiles, garments, and footwear... The demand for labor recruitment is high, but units are facing difficulties in recruitment, having to find out-of-province labor sources but still not meeting the required quantity.
Overtime all weekends
Due to difficulties in recruitment, businesses have to arrange overtime to track order progress. For example, at Horn Vietnam Co., Ltd., workers work overtime for 2 hours/day. For about 2 months now, Tongwei Electronics Co., Ltd. has also had to arrange overtime for workers from 2-2.5 hours/day, working overtime on weekends to ensure order progress. Overtime arrangement ensures consensus from workers, overtime salary regimes are also applied according to legal regulations, ensuring workers' rights.
Regarding overtime and overtime at enterprises, the Hai Phong City Labor Federation 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.
The City Labor Federation also requested businesses to fully implement the regime of overtime wages, night work, work on weekly holidays, holidays, Tet; ensure mid-hour rest, weekly rest, 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 work.
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