Dong Nai-based firms keep stable activities after Tet

Businesses in Dong Nai province, an industrial hub in the southern region, have resumed normal activities with a stable worker situation after the Lunar New Year holiday (Tet).
Dong Nai-based firms keep stable activities after Tet ảnh 1A foreign direct investment (FDI) garment-textile firm in the southern province of Dong Nai (Photo VNA)

Dong Na​i (VNA) –
Businesses in DongNai province, an industrial hub in the southern region, have resumed normalactivities with a stable worker situation after the Lunar New Year holiday(Tet).

Nguyen Thi Thao, whose hometown is in thecentral province of Ha Tinh, said her company – Taekwang Vina, which employsover 30,000 labourers, organised coaches to bring workers home for Tet and backto Dong Nai’s Bien Hoa city after the holiday was over. All workers are excitedto resume their work.

According to Dinh Sy Phuc – head of the tradeunion of Taekwang Vina, about 99 percent of the workers returned to work in themorning of February 22, the first workday after Tet.

Pham Van Cuong, deputy head of the Dong NaiIndustrial Zones Authority, cited local businesses as reporting that about 95percent of the total firms resumed normal activities on February 22. About 95percent of their labourers have also returned to work.

Dong Nai is currently home to 35 industrialparks with more than 1,510 investment projects, including some 1,100 foreign-investedones, with about 900,000 workers. 

About 70 percent of workers in Dong Nai comefrom other provinces, mostly in the central and northern regions. - VNA
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