Shaoxing Textile faces 20% labor shortage: Enterprises need transformation

More than 5,000 jobs are vacant and there are only 500 candidates. In recent days, the Qing Qiang Human Resources Fair saw a large number of jobs waiting for workers, reflecting the shortage of textile workers in Shaoxing County. This is undoubtedly a very painful task for labor-intensive textile and garment companies.

Recruitment, difficult!

The ratio of the number of jobs on the first day of Qian Qing's first Human Resources Fair this year was 10:1, which is a significant drop from the ratio of 10:3 for the first Spring Festival human resources job fair four years ago. “With more workers in the company, there are not many candidates,” said Xu Guangen, director of the labor and social security office in the town, who has been responsible for human resource recruitment activities. He believes that the phenomenon of supply and demand for “more porridge and less porridge” will become the norm.

"Conservatively, Qian Qingzhen has a gap of 15,000 laborers and Nine has become a chemical fiber and textile enterprise," Xu Guangen told reporters. Textile enterprises are the "hard-hit areas" for lack of work. According to the latest survey conducted by the County Economic and Information Bureau, the employment situation of labor-intensive enterprises such as textiles, clothing, and home textiles in Shaoxing County is currently very severe and the number of missing people is around 20%.

Local recruiters can't recruit people, and people who work in other places often also have “closed doors”. “Past labor service outlets have now become labor service importing sites.” Song Qiang, director of the county's human resources market management office, told reporters that the supply of labor in the Mainland is very tight, and many of the labor-producing provinces have had to hire people.

Thin, worry!

According to incomplete statistics, the current shortage of workers in Shaoxing County is about 60,000 people, of which textile companies account for more than half. “Everywhere in the country is contending for labor resources, but the labor resources for freshmen are very limited. To break this bottleneck is a systematic project,” said an industry source.

The labor shortage not only occurs in Shaoxing County, but also prevails in the developed textile industry. The abundant labor resources in the Mainland, while attracting labor service cooperation in coastal developed regions, has also attracted the attention of many investors. The limited labor resources in the Mainland have been gradually divided. In the battle for "labor", labor-intensive textile companies have chosen to increase wages. “Rising wages is a major attraction for companies recruiting this year, and it is also a universal measure.” Tao Guoyuan, director of the county’s Sanli Employment Agency, said: “Before and during the Spring Festival, the wages raised by enterprises have risen by 20%, such as the addition of ammunition workers and other types of work. The monthly salary of the company has risen to 4,000 yuan - 5,000 yuan, about 30% higher than before the holiday, but it is still difficult to recruit the right people."

In interviews, textile company operators generally reported that labor shortages and rising labor costs have become an important factor restricting the development of enterprises. "The main reason is that the profits of textile companies are too thin," said industry insiders, textile companies are labor-intensive enterprises, and entry barriers are low. Most companies pay attention to expanding the small-scale, multi-selling line of production scales, and the benefits and migrant workers The expectations of the “new generation” of migrant workers are too far apart.

Transformation, urgent!

From the one-day Spring Festival human resources job fair to the seven-day “negotiation week,” the Qianqing town government has eased the company’s labor shortage this year, adding nearly one-fold more money than in previous years, and recruiting companies “free of charge” for a week. . The county's human resources and bureaus are unprecedented. After the Spring Festival, the related towns (streets) and development zones are organized to organize 18 (times) human resources job fairs in a centralized manner. “Introducing and going out” is a two-pronged approach.

Enterprises, governments and other parties are making concerted efforts to cope with the current "labor shortage." In the face of tight labor resources, Shaoxing County's textile industry has accelerated the transformation and upgrading process under the “labor shortage” mechanism, in which industrial gradient transfer is an effective way. Due to the influence of resources, the history of world industrial development has a gradient transfer process without exception. The gradient of textile production has shifted from Europe to Asia, Japan, South Korea, and China. Developed countries have firmly grasped trade, R&D, and brands in this process of capacity transfer. Relevant data show that in the global economic growth, the growth of trade is much higher than that of manufacturing.