This afternoon (February 5), the Government Office held a regular Government Press Conference for January 2025 chaired by Minister and Head of the Government Office Tran Van Son.
At the press conference, the press asked about solutions to retain workers to ensure the operation of factories in industrial parks after Tet.
Responding to this content, Deputy Minister of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs (MOLISA) Nguyen Van Hoi said that the labor force participating in the labor market is large, about 52 million people, playing an extremely important role in ensuring production and business of the economy and enterprises.
Usually after Tet, there are a number of workers who, for some reasons such as taking extra leave, changing jobs, or changing residence, lead to local labor shortages in some factories and some localities.
Regarding this content, right before Tet, the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs forecasted the situation and instructed localities to firmly grasp and forecast developments regarding workers and the labor market at factories and enterprises in their localities.
Implementing the direction of the Government and the Prime Minister, the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs has guided localities to synchronously implement solutions to ensure market stability.
Firstly, localities should effectively implement the project on labor market development according to Decision No. 176/QD-TTg in 2021, contributing to strengthening information on the labor market, enhancing the connection between labor supply and demand, regulating the labor market, and contributing to stabilizing the labor market before, during and after Tet.
Second, the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs has also urged localities and enterprises to properly implement policies on wages and bonuses for employees in enterprises, especially industrial parks and export processing zones.
Third, guide, urge and request factories and enterprises to do a good job of transporting workers. Many factories organize buses to transport workers to major centers in the provinces, bringing workers back before Tet and picking up workers after Tet.
This is a very good policy that businesses have implemented. At the same time, businesses also announced lucky money and bonuses when workers returned to the factory after Tet. In some places with urgent orders, they have a lucky money policy of 500,000 VND to 2 million VND.
Fourth, trade unions at all levels have organized many shuttle buses for workers, contributing to stabilizing the market with businesses.
Up to this point, in industrial parks and export processing zones in localities such as Hanoi, Bac Giang, Bac Ninh, Thai Nguyen, Ho Chi Minh City, Long An, Dong Nai, Binh Duong... workers have returned to work after Tet holiday, many localities reaching 97-98%, some places reaching 100%.
Deputy Minister Nguyen Van Hoi also said that localities and enterprises have implemented wage policies well, with the average salary of workers in 2024 reaching nearly 9 million VND/month, an increase compared to 2023, and the average bonus for the Lunar New Year of At Ty is 7.72 million VND/person, an increase of 13% compared to the bonus for the Lunar New Year of Giap Thin (6.85 million VND/person).
Companies and enterprises also have very diverse and rich policies to "retain" employees. Many places, enterprises and industrial parks even support travel expenses for employees to return home for Tet; and implement well the bonus policy and 13th month salary.
Many localities after Tet have implemented many programs on job transactions to strengthen online connections between localities and the labor market. These are basic solutions to ensure synchronization, contributing to maintaining and stabilizing the labor market, and preventing labor shortages in key economic regions after Tet At Ty 2025.
