A factory of Hue Garment & Textile JSC (Huegatex) (Photo: VNA)Hanoi (VNA) – Most of employees have returned to work following the Tet (LunarNew Year) holiday, companies reported.
Thisyear 98.5 percent of the Canon workers came back to work after Tet, which ended last week, thanks to the company’s preferentialpolicies for workers.
Pham Thi Van Anh, the company’s trade unionchairwoman, told the Nong Thon Ngay Nay (Countryside Today) newspaper that the companyhired 180 automobiles to take workers and their families to their hometowns forthe holiday. The company also gave bonuses and presents to employees.
Other companies also welcomed many employeesback to work after the holiday.
Samsung Vietnam restarted operations on February2. The company has 100,000 workers, 93 percent of whom returned to work.
The company did not face worker shortages afterthe Tet holiday as they implemented preferentialpolicies for workers, said a company representative.
“Besides helping workers to buy coach and traintickets to return to their hometowns, the company gave bonuses to workers. Thismonth, the company increased salary for all workers, and bonuses for those withhigh productivity,” said the representative.
Nguyen Dinh Thang, deputy chairman of the HanoiIndustrial Zone and Processing Zone Trade Union, said that there were noofficial statistics of employees returning to work after the holiday, but thetrade union estimated that more workers came back to work than last year.
This was because of co-operation betweencompanies and the trade union in taking care of workers, he said.
Phan Thi Thu Hang, chairwoman of the Long Bien districtTrade Union in Hanoi, said that taking care of employees and protecting theirrights was important.
In Long Bien district, enterprises also tookcare of their workers’ rights.
Before the holiday, the district trade unionarranged 10 automobiles to transport more than 300 workers back to theirhometown to enjoy the holiday.
In industrial zones in the northern province ofBac Giang, the working atmosphere is also merry.
In the Si Flex Co Ltd in the Quang ChauIndustrial Zone in Viet Yen district, nearly 1,000 workers registered to workon the last two days of the old lunar year, and the fourth day of the lunar NewYear. 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 Zonein Noi Hoang district had more than 200 workers working during the holiday withsalary of 1 million VND (44 USD) per worker per day.
Work also kicked off again after the festivitiesin the northern province of Quang Ninh.
Dang Van Chinh, chairman of the Trade Union ofQuang Ninh Industrial Zones, said that this year most workers returned to workon the first working day after the holiday, because many companies arrangedautomobiles to transport workers to their hometown before the holiday, andbring them back after the holiday.
Some companies gave most of the Tet bonus to their workers before the holiday, andgave the remainder if they came back to work immediately after the holiday.
“This makes employees work harder and be eagerto work after the holiday,” said Chinh.
The same situation occurred in HCM City.
Tran Anh Tuan, deputy director of the HCM Centrefor Forecasting Manpower Needs and Labour Market Information, told the Tien Phong (Vanguard) newspaper that most enterprisesimplemented good salary and bonus policies, so the rate of worker shortagesafter Tet was low.
Surveys of more than 1,700 enterprises in thecity 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 newworkers this year is lower than previous years,” said Tuan.-VNA
