Illustrative image (Photo: VNA) HCM City (VNA) – A number of enterprises are restoring productionand recruiting more workers as the fourth wave of COVID-19 infections has been partlycontrolled, thus creating more opportunities for labourers.
A representative from an employment service centre in Binh Duongprovince, a major production hub in the southern region, said the local labour market isheating up again after over three months of hiatus caused by the pandemic.Almost enterprises now lack manual workers to handle orders in the year-end month.
Statistics from the centre showed that the closer to the end ofthe year comes, the more urgently businesses work to find workers. Sinceearly October, it has received applications from nearly 450 employers seekingabout 20,300 new workers.
According to the industrial parks management board of Dong Nai province, around 1,700 projects in local IPs have been put intooperation, or 99 percent of the total. The number of employees working in enterprisesalso reaches some 88 percent.
Tran Thi Thuy Tram, deputy director of the Dong Nai provincialemployment service centre, said on its online job transaction floor held inlate November, 35 businesses registered to recruit more than 12,000 workers.
Ho Ngoc Chuong, Director of Metro Mart Co. Ltd. – a retailerbased in Ho Chi Minh City, said his company now lacks 25 percent of workforceto ensure its normal operations. It is recruiting more employees and offeringattractive salaries and bonuses to keep them.
A representative from Binh Duong’s employment service centresaid when looking for jobs, workers pay attention to their tasks, working time,basic salary and support policies, and lastly recruiters’ requirements./.
