VietNamNet Bridge – Unable to sell products and access bank
loans, a lot of businesses have come to an impasse. The circumstances are so
serious that they even do not have money to pay salaries to workers.
Bich Hoa, an officer of an
import-export company in Hanoi, said she has not received the salaries for
August and September yet.
Receiving 5 million dong a month,
Hoa always has to be economical to reserve money for the family’s most
essential needs. However, the company now even does not have money to pay the
modest salary to her. As a result, she has to borrow money from their relatives
to cover daily expenses.
“I am not sure if I can receive
salaries this month,” she complained.
However, Hoa does not intend to
take proceedings to demand for salary payment, or quit the job. She knows well
that the company does not have money to pay now after a long period of
stagnation production and goods unsalability. Hoa also does not think that she
would be able to find another job at this moment, when all businesses are in
big difficulties and they try to lay off workers.
Mai Trang, an officer of a real
estate firm, has not received salaries for the last three months. She gets only
3 million dong a month for the post in the administration department, a very
small sum of money which is just enough to cover the basic needs, and no more
for saving.
Trang said she has been living
off the parents over the last three months while looking for another job,
because she does not think the real estate market would recover soon.
Quang Ninh, a worker of the
mechanical engineering company in Van Phuc commune of Thanh Tri district in
Hanoi, said that the salary payment delay has been so popular for a long time.
It’s still unclear when the workers of the company would get salaries for June.
However, Ninh and other workers
still have to go working every day. If they don’t, they would be dismissed
immediately. Therefore, they would rather not to receive money right now to
retain the jobs.
Dinh Thi Anh, an accountant of a
car trade company in Tay Ho district in Hanoi, also complains that she has to
borrow money to cover daily expenses.
“I have been working there for
two years only, and I don’t have savings. The company only pays one or two
million dong a month in advance, so I have to live from hand to mouth,” she
said.
Anh said that it’s not easy to
find jobs at this moment, even though accountancy is believed to be a “hot
job.”
It seems that the bosses
understand well that their workers would not dare to raise objections to the
leadership because of the delayed salary payment. Therefore, they prioritize to
use money for other purposes than salary payment.
A director of a media company
said he has to “say the truth” to the workers, that the company does not have
money to pay salaries now.
“We have mortgaged the head
office of the company and the private assets of some managers for bank loans to
pay salaries already,” he said.
“I have to inform to the workers
about the real situation of the company, so that they can arrange their lives,”
he added.
All the workers at the two
branches of Best Carings, a home appliance distribution chain, have been
informed that they would stay off works for indefinite time.
H said that he still has not got
the fixed salaries for August and September, and the commissions for the sales
since June, worth nearly 10 million dong.
Bao Han – Yen Ba
Business & Investment Opportunities
YourVietnamExpert is a division of Saigon Business Corporation Pte Ltd, Incorporated in Singapore since 1994. As Your Business Companion, we propose a range of services in Strategy, Investment and Management, focusing Healthcare and Life Science with expertise in ASEAN. Since we are currently changing the platform of www.yourvietnamexpert.com, you may contact us at: sbc.pte@gmail.com, provisionally. Many thanks.
No comments:
Post a Comment