That is, it is reduced to 5.5 days/week instead of 6 days/week as at present). This proposal is supported by the majority of non-state workers but is still concerned about many issues.
Ms. Tran Thi Yen (40 years old) - a leather shoe worker said that she is currently working 10.5 hours/day. Every time I go home, my body is extremely tired, just hoping to come home early to have time to rest.
"Return home at 8pm, eat rice, take care of the body, clean the house after 9pm, then go to bed to rest and can't go anywhere. I just hope to have specific regulations so that the company does not require overtime too late" - Ms. Yen said.
The female worker is also concerned that it will be very difficult to reduce working hours according to the proposal for the unskilled labor group. Because according to Ms. Yen, only when the company has little work or is having difficulties and excess labor is the office hours worked like other groups of workers
According to Ms. Yen, reducing working hours requires increasing the basic salary to a higher level than at present to ensure benefits for workers. If she only works in administration, Ms. Yen, with her current basic salary, earns only about 6.5 million VND per month.
Sharing more, the female worker commented that reducing working hours can make companies pay salaries according to the time to increase productivity faster to reduce working time and pay less wages. However, Ms. Yen said that she is still willing to accept and try to work at a higher intensity to get home early to rest.
Proposing the opinion, the female worker said that it should be regulated to only work 5.5 days/week instead of regulating specific working hours. According to Ms. Yen, this policy will help workers feel more secure, have 1.5 days to recover their health and do more work in daily life instead of 1 day as before.
Recognizing the viewpoint of workers working under contracts (paying wages according to output), the policy of reducing working hours needs to be implemented drastically and with specific regulations.
Ms. Pham Thi Nhung (41 years old) - a garment worker shared that time only affects 30% of income. The high or low month-end salary depends mainly on work experience and product stages.
"Working under a contract, whether we reduce working hours or not, our income is not affected much because the salary is calculated based on the output, not the number of hours worked" - Ms. Nhung said.
The female worker is willing to speed up the work progress to ensure output in the shortest time.
The difficulty in the policy of reducing working hours, according to Ms. Nhung, is the number of orders of the enterprise. When there are many goods and it is necessary to urgently export them while there are not enough human resources because it is difficult to recruit, workers still have to work overtime as usual.
The female worker said that the policy of reducing working hours needs to be clearly regulated for all industry groups. For textile and garment work, paying according to output, Ms. Nhung recommends that from the 45th hour onwards, it is calculated at 1.5 times the minimum hourly salary in the working area.
