Wages Continued To Rise &Nbsp, Directly To The Bottom Line Of Wenzhou Shoe Leather Enterprises.

February 22nd news has passed the Lantern Festival, the old employees came back 5, new employees have not yet been recruited, and the two production lines of the factory can not be opened until now. The order placed by customers last month can not be completed.

This makes Wenzhou Xinqiao one eyeglasses production enterprise responsible person Xiao Ke worried.

"No way, only pay increases."

Xiao Ke said last year's workers

Xiao Ke said that labor-intensive Wenzhou enterprises, such as glasses, originally had relatively low profits. The sharp rise in labor costs this year has endangered the bottom line of most enterprises.

"Some of my surroundings.

1 workers, 10 companies.

There are a lot of glasses and clothing in the surrounding industrial areas such as Gao Xiang, Wenzhou and so on.

Before the Lantern Festival, Xiao Ke did not have a door-to-door consultation, which was very rare in previous years.

In order to recruit workers, Xiao Ke made classified ads in the local newspaper, but no one called to ask.

In desperation, Xiao Ke is going to take part in some job fairs held in the industrial area, but he does not have much hope for it. I heard that the number of business recruiters there is far greater than those who come to apply for jobs.

"Workers are less than one year younger than one year later," Xiao Ke said. At the beginning of the first five months of last year, some workers could be seen on the main street of the industrial area.

Xiao Ke said that his eyeglasses enterprise has two production lines, and fifty or sixty workers are needed.

Before the Lantern Festival this year, the old staff came back only 5, and the new employees had not yet been recruited.

Last year, when the Lantern Festival was held, fifteen of its old employees came back, and five or six of the new employees came into operation. They could barely run a production line.

In order to recruit workers, Wenzhou enterprises have done their best.

Xiao Ke said that his business is trying to recruit and retain husband and wife workers, because their lives and work are relatively stable and mature, and reserved seventeen eight couples' houses.

On the eve of Valentine's day, Wenzhou's Jill's shoes show a sign to recruit "lovers employees", attracting couples to apply for jobs.

On the basis of the subsidy to the employees during the Spring Festival and the living allowance of the workers who left the factory on Spring Festival, the AOKANG shoe industry in Wenzhou has also prepared a total of 180 thousand yuan for the Spring Festival return workers' red envelopes. The cash gift coupons of 50-1000 yuan face value are distributed to the employees in the first day class by lottery.

Not only is there a red envelope, employees can receive 3 times the salary three days before the start.

At the same time, the factory also improved the housing subsidy system and established the "matchmaker club".

Even so, most of Wenzhou's enterprises still reflect a serious shortage of recruitment.

"The biggest gap among general practitioners."

Xiao Ke said.

As of February 20th, a Wenzhou employment agency had registered 656 job orders, involving 341 jobs including general practitioners, apprenticeships, waiters, security guards and welders, with a total demand of 9418 people and 8783 shortfalls. Among them, nearly 3000 workers were among the most demanding workers.

Xiao Ke said that in 90s of last century, 1 jobs in Wenzhou were robbed by 10 people. Now 1 workers and 10 enterprises are looting. Workers do not have to worry about not finding jobs.

Nearly 70% enterprises are short of work.

Wang Ouxiang, deputy secretary of the Wenzhou vocational guidance and guidance service center, said that the number of migrant workers who came to the center to register for employment in 2001 reached more than 510 thousand, but by 2009 this figure had dropped to about 180 thousand, while only 120 thousand of the workers in 2010 were expected to continue to decrease in 2011.

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In February 9th this year, the Wenzhou employment guidance service center opened on the first day of the year. The number of people who came to work was only more than 2000, compared with more than 9000 in 2009.

The huge labor gap has attracted the attention of Wenzhou economic and Trade Commission, and 855 enterprises in 18 industries such as leather making, plastic weaving and metal smelting have been investigated.

In January 26th this year, the main difficulties and problems of Wenzhou's industrial economy released in 2010 showed that nearly 70% of Wenzhou's enterprises were short of work and ranked second in the difficult choices of enterprises.

Among them, 10% of the total number of workers is 43%, 20% of them are 15%, 30% of them are 9%, and more than half of them are 1.5%.

The huge labor gap is directly driving the bottom line of Wenzhou's SMEs.

In 2009, Zhou Dewen, President of the Wenzhou Association of small and medium enterprises, said that Wenzhou enterprises had an annual labor gap of 600 thousand -80 people, plus the financial crisis which caused 500 thousand -60 million migrant workers to return home, making the gap widened to 1 million 400 thousand.

Xiao Ke said that at present, Wenzhou is short of general practitioners and two of high-end talents.

Mr. Li, director of the human resources department of a large enterprise in Wenzhou, said that even if the recruitment fairs were held in the city, it would be difficult to find the right people.

In order to solve the problem of talent, the company mainly recruits people through headhunting companies or going out to Shanghai, Beijing and other places.

In Xiao Ke's view, the central and western economic development absorbed some migrant workers, some 80 and 90 new generation of migrant workers "high and low", and the state increased the policy of benefiting farmers, which are the main reasons for the recruitment difficulties of Wenzhou enterprises.

In order to solve the problem of recruitment difficulties, Xiao Ke's factories all adopted "piecework payment" method since last year, so as to reduce the number of workers and raise the level of workers' remuneration.

At the same time, we should do everything possible to reduce costs in such aspects as worker life, production and material handling. For example, his company requires every worker to spend more than 10 yuan a month on his life.

At the same time, the workers' work intensity was reduced, from 10.5 hours per day to 10 days a day, and two days a month.

"Labor shortage" will directly push enterprises to speed up structural upgrading and technological pformation to digest costs, and the more late they change, the more they lose the opportunity to adjust.

Zhejiang AOKANG shoe Limited by Share Ltd, general manager of thousand stone shoe manufacturing center, said Fan Manru.

As early as the beginning of the year, AOKANG shoe industry management predicted that it would be unrealistic for skilled workers to improve efficiency again. The only way out was to update equipment.

Fan Manru said: "although they have only replaced a small number of machines, the labor efficiency has increased by more than 10%, which means that the employees have more than 10% free time."

Enterprise life and death intersection

Xiao Ke said that last year, the average monthly income of his ordinary employees was 1300-1800 yuan, and it is expected to mention 1600-2000 yuan this year, which will generally rise by about 20%.

A company around him even offered a price of 40 thousand yuan a year for individual jobs.

Data from Wenzhou employment guidance service center showed that in 2010, the average monthly wage of all jobs in the same period was 1548.09 yuan, which has risen to 1810.24 yuan this year, and the average wage has increased by 16.93% compared with the same period last year.

This year, printing industry has won the first prize of 12000 yuan, and the minimum wage has risen from 960 yuan last year to 1100 yuan.

Nevertheless, most job seekers are still on the sidelines.

In the Wenzhou employment guidance service center, a Qinzhou driver, Mr. Liu, who worked for the first time, said that the low salary was the main reason why he chose to wait and see in Wenzhou.

He said that most of the drivers of Wenzhou enterprises earn only about 2000 yuan a month, and they are less likely to eat them.

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In his hometown, he drove to other people, earning around 2400 yuan a month.

If you help his brother drive a truck, long-distance pportation of bananas, litchi, mango and other fruits, a monthly salary of at least 2800 yuan.

What is more difficult for Mr. Liu to accept is that the drivers in Wenzhou are not only low wages, but also have the role of "porters".

"How can I move the machines and moulds?" Mr. Liu said. If he could not find a relatively high wage job in Wenzhou, he would go to Ningbo, Shanghai and Shenzhen to find opportunities. "No more, I will go home and work hard."

Zhang, who has worked in Hunan for 3 years, said that he was a professional nurse student. He worked in a private hospital in Wenzhou for 8 months, and resigned because of low wages. He worked in a private hospital in Hunan.

In the past two years, he has been working in Wenzhou enterprises. Last year, his monthly salary was 1800 yuan, and he sent 12000 yuan to his family a year after frugal.

"Wages rose a lot last year, but my net income declined slightly compared with previous years compared with the sharp rise in household goods."

He said.

After earning a little money, he wants to go home to start a business or work.

Xiao Ke said that because of the pressure of rising costs such as labor force, some labor-intensive enterprises in Wenzhou will be cut off and cut down, or even run away from manufacturing industry forever.

"We didn't make money last year."

Xiao Ke said, a pair of glasses today labor costs accounted for 10%-15%, material costs accounted for 60%-70%, but also to deduct domestic sales, losses and other costs 10%, production enterprises almost no profit, "if a large number of returns, the loss is inevitable."

Xiao Ke believes that the cost of labor will continue to increase, and the price of products will be difficult to raise because of overproduction. At this intersection of life and death, many labor-intensive SMEs in Wenzhou will not be able to carry on.