In the second quarter of 2023, 851 of 3,795 enterprises in Ho Chi Minh City are recruiting more than 13,000 workers in many different fields, the City People's Committee has said.

According to the City People’s Committee’s forecast, in the second quarter, over 71% of businesses will still maintain the same production and business activities, more than 20% of enterprises expect to increase the number of employees and more than 7 % of enterprises plan to cut labor.

The main reason is that enterprises do not re-sign expired labor contracts, lack of production orders and some other reasons. Most businesses believe that the production and business situation in the last 6 months of 2023 will be better, thereby helping the labor market to be brighter.

In the second quarter of 2023, 851 of 3,795 enterprises in Ho Chi Minh City.

The City People's Committee has directed to continue to grasp the labor situation, encourage businesses to well implement labor law policies in taking care of workers' lives, promptly solve arising problems, and prevent collective labor disputes.

The city will organize job fairs to advise and introduce jobs to employees in both face-to-face and online forms to promptly advise workers who need to find a job and send them to businesses.

In addition, the city will also work with provinces to connect labor supply and demand to meet the requirements of human resource development, and promptly coordinate the implementation of policies to support workers from provinces to Ho Chi Minh City to work.

On the other hand, it will address unemployment insurance policies and vocational training counseling for workers who want to join vocational training.

Production activities of workers at Machinery Spare Parts No. 1 JSC, Song Cong 1 Industrial Park

According to the results of the industrial labor survey in March 2024: The number of workers employed in industrial enterprises as of March 1, 2024 increased by 0.56% compared to the previous month and increased by 1.83% compared to the same period. Specifically, the workforce in state-owned industrial enterprises decreased by 0.01% compared to the previous month and decreased by 1.52% compared to the same period; non-state-owned enterprises increased by 0.58% compared to the previous month and increased by 6.98% compared to the same period; enterprises with foreign direct investment increased by 0.64% compared to the previous month and increased by 0.32% compared to the same period.

In the first quarter of 2024, the number of workers employed in industrial enterprises decreased by 0.99% compared to the same period. When categorized by types of enterprises, state-owned enterprises decreased by 1.69%; non-state-owned enterprises increased by 7.42%; enterprises with foreign investment decreased by 4.05%. When divided by industry sectors: the mining industry decreased by 5.18%; manufacturing and processing industry decreased by 0.96%; electricity, gas, hot water, steam, and air conditioning production and distribution industry increased by 1.57%; water supply, waste management and treatment, wastewater management industry increased by 0.21% compared to the same period. Currently, many businesses in the province still have a demand for additional labor to meet production and business needs.

The festival had the participation of more than 43 units and businesses, of which 39 businesses registered to recruit personnel, with a total target of recruiting more than 3,500 workers in many job positions.

Industries that need to recruit a large number of workers such as mechanical engineering, electricity, electronics, information technology, automobile and engine engineering, electronics and telecommunications...

Right at the job fair, more than 500 people registered to look for jobs, participated in direct interviews with employers and learned about policies and laws related to labor, employment, mandatory and voluntary social insurance and unemployment insurance.

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