Most employees return to work after Tet
Hanoi (VNA) – Most of employees have returned to work following the Tet (Lunar New Year) holiday, companies reported.
This
year 98.5 percent of the Canon workers came back to work after Tet, which ended last week, thanks to the company’s preferential
policies for workers.
Pham Thi Van Anh, the company’s trade union
chairwoman, told the Nong Thon Ngay Nay (Countryside Today) newspaper that the company
hired 180 automobiles to take workers and their families to their hometowns for
the holiday. The company also gave bonuses and presents to employees.
Other companies also welcomed many employees
back to work after the holiday.
Samsung Vietnam restarted operations on February
2. The company has 100,000 workers, 93 percent of whom returned to work.
The company did not face worker shortages after
the Tet holiday as they implemented preferential
policies for workers, said a company representative.
“Besides helping workers to buy coach and train
tickets to return to their hometowns, the company gave bonuses to workers. This
month, the company increased salary for all workers, and bonuses for those with
high productivity,” said the representative.
Nguyen Dinh Thang, deputy chairman of the Hanoi
Industrial Zone and Processing Zone Trade Union, said that there were no
official statistics of employees returning to work after the holiday, but the
trade union estimated that more workers came back to work than last year.
This was because of co-operation between
companies and the trade union in taking care of workers, he said.
Phan Thi Thu Hang, chairwoman of the Long Bien district
Trade Union in Hanoi, said that taking care of employees and protecting their
rights was important.
In Long Bien district, enterprises also took
care of their workers’ rights.
Before the holiday, the district trade union
arranged 10 automobiles to transport more than 300 workers back to their
hometown to enjoy the holiday.
In industrial zones in the northern province of
Bac Giang, the working atmosphere is also merry.
In the Si Flex Co Ltd in the Quang Chau
Industrial Zone in Viet Yen district, nearly 1,000 workers registered to work
on the last two days of the old lunar year, and the fourth day of the lunar New
Year. Besides salary, the company gave bonuses of 200,000-400,000 VND (8-16 USD)
for each worker per working day during Tet.
Shinsung Vina Co Ltd in Song Khe Industrial Zone
in Noi Hoang district had more than 200 workers working during the holiday with
salary of 1 million VND (44 USD) per worker per day.
Work also kicked off again after the festivities
in the northern province of Quang Ninh.
Dang Van Chinh, chairman of the Trade Union of
Quang Ninh Industrial Zones, said that this year most workers returned to work
on the first working day after the holiday, because many companies arranged
automobiles to transport workers to their hometown before the holiday, and
bring them back after the holiday.
Some companies gave most of the Tet bonus to their workers before the holiday, and
gave the remainder if they came back to work immediately after the holiday.
“This makes employees work harder and be eager
to work after the holiday,” said Chinh.
The same situation occurred in HCM City.
Tran Anh Tuan, deputy director of the HCM Centre
for Forecasting Manpower Needs and Labour Market Information, told the Tien Phong (Vanguard) newspaper that most enterprises
implemented good salary and bonus policies, so the rate of worker shortages
after Tet was low.
Surveys of more than 1,700 enterprises in the
city showed that the labour market after the holiday was stable, he said.
“Companies’ social welfare policies were good,
limiting the number of workers quitting their jobs. Therefore, demand for new
workers this year is lower than previous years,” said Tuan.-VNA