Wage Growth Is Hard To Bother The Shoe Industry (1)

Reporters in mid July Labour-intensive The Pearl River Delta area, the most densely populated enterprise, has learned that the average wage of local workers has risen by 20% since the beginning of this year.

Some enterprises in the Pearl River Delta have told reporters that in the long run, wage increases are inevitable. However, the minimum wage standards have been raised sharply, making the labor costs of enterprises significantly increased in the short term and increasing operating pressure. Therefore, we hope to establish a normal wage growth mechanism as soon as possible and reasonably control the pace of wage increase.

Workers seem to evaporate.

At the beginning of this year, when the owners of PRD and the Yangtze River Delta first met face-to-face, their biggest question was "where have all the workers gone?"

" Recruitment difficulties "Since the beginning of this year, it has come to prominence. After the Spring Festival, enterprises in Dongguan soon faced this difficult problem.

Jiaxun knitting factory is a wholly foreign-owned enterprise in Hongkong. Like other local textile enterprises, recruitment has become the most troublesome problem at the beginning of the year. Lin Xiaoning, deputy general manager of knitting factory, told reporters that "we were very optimistic this year, but suddenly found many workers vanished."

What is even more interesting is that in March, the top executives of Jiaxun knitting factory went to Hangzhou, Zhejiang and other places to investigate. They thought that the workers had been transferred to Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, but they suddenly discovered that there was also a labor shortage. Business owners in Jiangsu and Zhejiang also wondered, did they not all run to Dongguan?

Labor intensive enterprises most concentrated in the Yangtze River Delta and Pearl River Delta business owners suddenly found that workers like this "human evaporation".

The reform plan of income distribution has not yet been clear, and the minimum wage has been gradually expanded everywhere. The words "rising salary" and "income distribution reform" frequently give workers more expectation. Lin Xiaoning said that the media hyped up the hype of "shortage of migrant workers", to a certain extent, gave some migrant workers unrealistic expectations.

"At that time, there was a lack of people everywhere. The South was short and the North was short. There was no one everywhere, and there was no shortage of people in one industry." Lin Xiaoning said. At the beginning of the year, the difficulty of recruiting workers directly led enterprises to start raising their salaries independently before they raised the minimum wage standard locally.

Take precautions and become the "homework" that an experienced business owner must do. According to Lin Xiaoning, at the beginning of the year, in order to avoid recruiting people, enterprises also had a lot of appeasing policies before they started, including raising wages and improving welfare.

Ceng Xiaoqing, director of the personnel department of Shenzhen GuanFeng Technology Co., Ltd., told the workers before the Spring Festival holiday that they hoped to introduce their fellow townsman and friends to work in the factory in the future. This practice has also been effective. Guanfeng technology has survived the shortage of migrant workers in March. Despite this, its real wage has increased by 10%.

"Recruitment difficulties" boost wage increases

To this day, the "recruitment difficulty" has not been alleviated at the beginning of the year, accompanied by the endless large-scale recruitment of enterprises and a round of spontaneous wage increases.

"Made in China looks at Guangdong, Guangdong makes Dongguan." Dongguan, the first to undertake the world's industrial transfer and to hold many well-known brands in and outside the country, is well deserved to praise the "world factory". Now, Dongguan is also facing the plight of manpower shortage.

Shuttling through the Pearl River Delta Industrial Park, it is obvious that there are many recruitment advertisements, which seem to be no less than advertised by products. For example, in the main building of Dongguan Ju Sheng shoe factory, there is a huge recruitment notice. "Long term recruitment of general practitioners, men and women is not limited." Shenzhen Dongyu shoe industry also wrote on its factory wall "our company has long been recruiting general workers".

What is even more striking is that, at the doorway of many enterprises, there is a recruiting room parallel to the duty room and the security room. This indicates that long-term recruitment has become one of the daily tasks of many enterprises.

When the "recruitment difficulty" has given the owners and workers a general expectation, the change of supply and demand will give rise to a justification for salary increase. Lin Xiaoning said that since the beginning of this year, the actual wage of Jiaxun knitting mill has increased by more than 30%.

Lv Dexin, the vice chairman of Hongkong mirror Wei Co., Ltd., who is engaged in the furniture industry for more than ten years in Dongguan, told reporters that the minimum wage of factory workers has been raised by 20% this year, and the overall wages have been raised by about 5%, but it is still difficult to recruit employees. "Many of our workers are elderly, or have no special skills or are slower than ordinary workers, but we have no choice but to do so." Lv Dexin reluctantly told reporters.

At the same time as enterprises raise salaries, they will fight hard. Welfare Card "Has become a common tool. Last Wednesday, the largest talent market in Dongguan, the Zhitong talent market, was as crowded as ever. The reporter observed that apart from the introduction of salary advantages, many enterprises have introduced the various entertainment facilities owned by enterprises in recruitment information. Some enterprises even published photographs of libraries, billiards rooms, table tennis courts and basketball courts in recruitment advertisements. The head of a company's personnel department said it was to attract more 80 and 90 job seekers.