Great efforts taken to maintain operation

Bac Giang LNG Garment Corporation Joint Stock Company is specialized at garment production with some 1,700 labours. For recent 10 days, the company must allow 100 workers to be absent for Covid-19 infection.

Bac Giang LNG Garment Corporation Joint Stock Company maintains production amid high Covid-19 infection.

Facing the difficulties, the company re-arranged the production line to ensure the most productivity of the existing workforce to complete the orders basing on the exporting schedule inked with partners while maintaining daily overtime working plan from 1.5 to 2 hours.

During Lunar New Year holiday, Hosiden Vietnam Company Limited in Quang Chau industrial park created stable jobs to about 5,200 labours to manufacture electronic components. For less than half of month, many workers have been contracted to novel coronavirus, leading to low operational productivity in the factory (only 60 – 70 percent).

At first, the firm focuses on employing new labours for divisions with urgent demand and organizing overtime working shift of 2.5 to 3 hours per day (doubling the time of normal period) event night shift on Sunday.

Timely grasping labour situation

According to the report from the Department of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (DoLISA), the province has about 7,000 companies that create jobs to more than 300,000 labours including 383 firms at the industrial parks (IP) with over 172,000 labours.

Hosiden Vietnam Company Limited takes efforts to maintain production because many infected workers ask for temporary absence.

The high infections among the IP workers (currently 30,000 cases) caused impacts on production in most of the companies but they are not too severe. Now, only two businesses with labour shortage must adjust and re-arrange the production plan.

Acknowledging the businesses’ difficulties, the provincial People’s Committee directed the Department of Health to issue guidance about correct implementation of patient isolation and treatment. Accordingly, when F0 under home treatment is qualified to remove the quarantine condition, he/she does not have to self-monitor the health in 7 days more.

The IP Management Board continues guiding and supporting enterprises to communicate and encourage labours to stabilize the metal condition and return to factories soon.

At the same times, agencies have actively cooperated with the health sector and relevant organizations to make third shot inoculation plan to over 27,000 qualified workers, strive to cover 100 percent of IP labours with third Covid-19 vaccine shot in late March.

As forecast, nearly 100 businesses in and outside the province register to employ more than 53,600 titles in 2022, including over 80 percent of untrained labours. Particularly, in the first quarter of this year, newly established and expanded companies demanded to employ about 35,000 people due to labour shortage caused by Covid-19.

DoLISA’s Vice Director Tran Van Ha said the Department sums up the employment demand of companies every week, directs the provincial Job Service Center to accelerate the supply – demand linkage with priority taken to enterprises with many new infections to find alternative and seasonal labours.

To restrict the travel and any arising cost for both employers and employees together with disease preventive requirement, the DoLISA ordered the provincial Job Service Center to apply information technology in job connectivity such as updating recruitment demand on Job Portal, social network; maintaining operation of Zalo group “Hỗ trợ việc làm - Covid-19” (Job assistance – Covid-19); especially organizing online or in-person job transaction sessions under specific theme to meet certain demand of companies and labours.

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