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HCMC – Some 120,000 workers at the HCMC-based industrial parks (IPs) and export processing zones (EPZs) now have less working days a week and take rotating leave due to a sharp fall in new orders.
Speaking to the Daily, Nguyen Tan Dinh, deputy head of the HCMC Export Processing Zones and Industrial Parks Authority (Hepza), said nearly 270,000 workers are employed at 14 IPs and EPZs in the city. However, many factories in the IPs and EPZs are now facing a drop in order volumes, so they no longer need overtime work.
Working days are down to 4-5 days from the previous six a week. Many companies let their workers take rotating leave and pay them 75% salaries.
The total number of employees affected by these policies is some 120,000, Dinh said.
Poor business performance also impacts the recruitment of new workers at IPs and EPZs in HCMC. According to Dinh, in previous years, enterprises registered to recruit an average of 50,000 workers per year and actually hired some 30,000, but this year they register their needs of only 30,000 workers. Worse still, many businesses have removed their recruitment notices.
* Hiep Phuoc IP in Nha Be District last Friday opened a dorm for some 560 workers, with the first floor used as a day-care facility for 150 children of workers.
According to Hiep Phuoc Industrial Park JSC, the facility is equipped with beds, wardrobes, fans, telephones, internet, free cable TV service, electricity and water calculated in accordance with State regulations. The monthly rent is VND200,000-250,000 per person.
Hiep Phuoc IP now has two dorms with a capacity of 1,100 workers, a facility for community activities and a supermarket for workers.
Nguyen Tan Dinh, deputy head of Hepza, said the 14 IPs and EPZs in the city employ some 270,000 workers, 65% of them from other provinces.
However, to date, the dorms for workers at the IPs only meet 10% of demand, and day-care centers for children of workers are even scarcer. Currently, the city is completing the procedures for construction of an additional five day-care centers for children of IP workers.
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