Sales Of British Footwear Rose Sharply During World Cup

The British Retail Union (BRC) recently counted the retail sales of products during the world cup.

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China Economic Times reporter: "regardless of Foxconn plus no pay increase, other OEM enterprises need to raise salaries, because they are short of work and have to pay wages to recruit workers."

Reporters interviewed in Houjie, Dongguan last December, found that the recruitment information was posted at the door of every enterprise, and many companies even hung the long recruitment banner on the front side of the office building.

In April this year, reporters again came to Houjie, and found that the situation is still, recruitment difficulties continue.

Take Yang Jin's shoe making enterprise as an example, in order to recruit workers, the wages of general workers reached 1200 yuan last year, and the wages of technical workers were 2000 yuan.

Yang Jin said: "from the second half of last year to the present, enterprises are constantly raising salaries. Now the wages of technical workers have reached 2500 yuan or 3000 yuan, but they still lack enough jobs."

The recent survey conducted by the Chinese manufacturers' Federation of Hongkong and the Hongkong Trade Development Council (TDC) on the Pearl River Delta port enterprises shows that 150 of the 160 Hong Kong enterprises surveyed, or 90% of the Hong Kong enterprises, are experiencing labor shortages.

If the rate of labour shortage is estimated, the total number of workers who are short of work is 29517, accounting for 20.8% of the total number of employees of 160 Hong Kong enterprises in the Pearl River Delta, that is, an average of 197 workers per enterprise.

Gao says that there is a fundamental change in the pattern of supply and demand in China's labor market: the surplus labor force in rural areas has changed from unlimited supply to Limited surplus, and the era of obtaining labor supply continuously from the countryside without raising wages is over.