According to the provincial Department of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs, the province has more than 28,000 employees who have temporarily suspended their labor contracts, taken unpaid leave and over 240,000 employees have to reduce their working hours. It is expected that in the coming months, the situation of labor reduction will continue to increase. The reason is that the political and economic situation in the world has many complicated developments, strongly affecting the global economy such as: High inflation; prices such as gasoline, raw materials, goods, although showing signs of cooling down, are still at a high level, etc. Especially, the war between Russia and Ukraine has had a negative impact on most industries and fields such as export and import activities, input material prices, etc., greatly affecting the production and business activities of enterprises in Binh Duong province.
Overview of the meeting
In the spirit of frankness and objectivity, departments, committees, branches and localities recognize the actual difficulties that enterprises are facing, especially for 3 industries: wood, textile, footwear. Based on the functions and tasks of the unit, each department, branch and locality is proactively and actively deploying a series of solutions to help enterprises expand their markets, attract investment, and take care of the life and morale of employees.
Ms. Nguyen Kim Loan - Chairman of Binh Duong Provincial Labor Confederation answers the enterprise's recommendations
Specifically, Binh Duong doubled the number of gifts for employees who stayed to celebrate Tet in the locality compared to the previous year to about 46,000-47,000 gifts; the province has also issued a plan to stabilize the Tet commodity market with a total value of more than 6,000 billion VND; formulated policies to support health insurance for employees with difficulties and job loss; the provincial functional branches sent many recommendations and proposals to the Central Government to continue to issue practical support policies for enterprises.
Representative of the Ceramics Association speaks at the meeting
Logistics Association proposes recommendations to provincial leaders
Trade associations and the enterprise community highly appreciated the attention and timely solutions of the Binh Duong government to share difficulties in the current time. In the context of general difficulties, enterprises are still making great efforts to maintain production and business activities, ensuring jobs for employees. In addition, leaders of trade associations and enterprises want to soon implement policies on tax exemption, reduction, and social insurance payment reduction during the long Tet holiday; support enterprises to borrow capital with preferential interest rates to reward workers for Tet, relax inspection and supervision to reduce pressure on enterprises, etc.
Chairman of the PPC Vo Van Minh concludes the meeting
Concluding the meeting, Chairman of the PPC Vo Van Minh shared with the difficulties of enterprises in the current period. The PPC received the opinions and recommendations of trade associations and enterprises, as a basis for the province to make an appropriate plan to stabilize labor and employment in a fundamental and long-term way, ensuring the province's socio-economic development in the coming time is sustainable. In the near future, the province will continue to strengthen the Working Group to share difficulties for enterprises with specific solutions. The Chairman of the PPC requested the branches and levels to focus on supporting enterprises, taking care of the lives of employees, immediately, focusing on supporting employees to welcome Tet; ensuring political security, security and order among workers in the area, etc.
Reported by Yen Nhi- Translated by Thanh Tam