Bac Giang: Over 26,500 employees lost their jobs, reduced working hours | Society

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2023-07-17 12:01:19

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According to the Department of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs of Bac Giang province, by June 2023 in the province, there were 87 enterprises (accounting for 1.2% of the number of enterprises in operation) that had to cut or reduce workers, causing over 26 , 5 thousand employees affected on employment and income.

Among them, over 17,000 employees had to quit their jobs or terminate their contracts; more than 2,200 employees had to stop working or take unpaid leave; 862 employees had to suspend their labor contracts and over 6,200 employees had their working hours reduced.

The number of workers who lost their jobs and reduced their jobs were mainly in the fields of textiles and garments, manufacturing and assembling electronic components. The cause of the above situation is that a number of enterprises operating in the field of processing and assembling electronic components, textiles and garments are missing or have their orders cut, so they have to cut labor or give workers alternate leave. .

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Last time, to support affected businesses and workers jobProvincial Department of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs Bac Giang cooperated with agencies and units to regularly monitor, timely inform and report on the situation of enterprises having orders cut, reducing labor, reducing working hours, and suspending operations, thereby proactively coordinating in cooperation with the relevant authorities to propose to the Party committees and authorities to deploy solutions to support production and business for enterprises; inspect and supervise the law observance of enterprises, the use of labor and payment of benefits as prescribed by law to employees.

At the same time, the industry directs the Provincial Employment Service Center and 20 employment service businesses in the area to regularly coordinate with businesses to support job search for workers, support businesses. recruiting enough workers according to production development needs; fully and promptly ensure regimes and policies for employees, of which unemployment insurance has been settled for nearly 12,000 people. laborup 38% over the same period.

Currently, Bac Giang has over 285,300 employees working in enterprises. In the past time, in addition to enterprises that had to reduce their production and business scale, there were also many enterprises in the province that went into operation and expanded production.

In the first 6 months of this year, businesses have recruited over 25,000 employees, it is expected that in the last 6 months of the year, there will be a need to recruit about 60,000 employees.

Leaders of the Department of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs of Bac Giang province said that in order to maintain and promote jobs for workers, in the coming time, the industry will coordinate with agencies and units to focus on implementing a number of solutions. France.

In the immediate future, it is necessary to support businesses to expand their consumption markets and supply raw materials and input materials, access loans, etc. to overcome difficulties and restore production.

The industry continues to grasp the situation of the labor market, effectively connect labor supply and demand, understand the market demand for what occupations, quantity, and labor qualifications. so that “job need” and “job seeker” come together.

For workers who are job loss, reducing jobs, the industry will direct relevant units to advise and support labor to meet the conditions to immediately supply to enterprises with labor shortage; support workers who lack skills and skills to participate in training, supplement and improve their qualifications to meet the requirements of enterprises.

In the long term, the industry will continue to improve the labor market information system, especially the collection and update of labor market data, digitalization and database connection. population, business registration, social insurance.

Along with that, the industry continued to innovate, creating a strong change in training quality and effectiveness of vocational education; develop a vocational education system with many methods and levels of vocational training, especially high-quality training in the direction of application and practice, to meet the human resource needs of the labor market in both quantity and quantity. , quality, occupational structure and training level./.

Dong Thuy (VNA/Vietnam+)

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