HCM City (VNS/VNA) - Severalenterprises in the south, mostly in Ho Chi Minh City and the provinces of Dong Nai and BinhDuong, are accelerating worker recruitment, preparing to up production afterthe Tet (Lunar New Year) holiday that falls in mid-February 2018.

They are announcing their hirings in manyways, posting recruitment information on banners and social networks, the TuoiTre (Youth) newspaper reports.

The Lien Phuong Textile Company in District9, Ho Chi Minh City, is offering jobs with salaries of 5.5-12 million VND (242– 528 USD) a month, welfare policies and healthcare insurance.

At the Linh Trung Export Processing Zoneand Tan Binh Industrial Zone in HCM City, a lot of companies are calling forpeople to apply for different jobs.

Bui Thanh Ngoc, deputy director of Job andEmployment Services Centre under HCM City Export Processing Zones Authority,said that the centre is currently looking to hire 1,000 women for electronicsassembling, 700 workers in mechanical components manufacturing and 1,500garment workers.

Difficult task

The Pousung Vina Company in the Bau Xeo IndustrialZone, Trang Bom district, Dong Nai province is among the companies keenlylooking to get new employees at the end of the year.

Le Nhat Truong, head of the company’slabour union, said that it was seeking 1,000 workers to complete orders andprepare for new assembly lines.

“We are offering thousands of jobs, but areonly able to hire four to five workers each day. In February or March, we couldselect a hundred a day,” he said.

Enterprises in Binh Duong province are alsostruggling to find workers.

At the provincial Employment ServiceCentre, more than 600 companies have advertised nearly 16,000 vacancies, butjust 300 candidates have registered for interviews.

According to Foster VN Electronics LtdCompany in VSIP 2 in Thu Dau Mot city, despite offering attractive welfarepackages, it has not been able to get the 3,000 workers it is looking for inthe year-end recruitment campaign. 

Vu Van Vuong, head of the company’s humanresource department, said that this year, they have only been able to recruitsome 30 workers a day, compared to around 100 in previous years.

Labour demand in the Mekong Delta provincesand Da Nang City has also risen sharply.

A report by Long An province’s Departmentof Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (DoLISA) says local enterprises are facinghurdles in finding workers. They needed more than 75,000 workers in 2017, butonly 30,000 have been hired so far.

Huynh Viet Tu, director of the EmploymentService Centre under the Da Nang Export Processing Zone Authority, said thatthe city was dealing with a serious labour shortage, mostly in textile andmechanical sectors.

According to Binh Duong province’s labourdepartment, the problem is caused by migrant workers leaving because theyprefer to work at emerging industrial zones in the Mekong Delta and the centralregion.

Huynh Ngoc Long, director of the Dong Nai provinceEmployment Service Centre, said high labour turnover, bankruptcies and earlyretirement policies might have exacerbated the problem.

Better packages

Ngoc said enterprises were paying moreattention to improve welfare policies for workers.

“Besides the salary and workingenvironment, welfare is a a primary concern for employees. By adoptingfavourable policies, companies are strengthening their employee retention,” hesaid.

Ha Thi Dao, human resource manager of acompany in the Linh Trung Export Processing Zone, said that labour turnover intextile, leather or footwear industries was high because of wide salaryranges.  

“Enterprises who receive a lot of orderscan offer higher salaries. But workers may have unstable income. At the end ofthe year or after the Tet holiday is the time workers seek for better jobs,”she said.

To address the problem, the Binh Duonglabour department has recommended that companies offer better remuneration toall employees. - VNA