VietNamNet Bridge – Many HCM City businesses are faced with
labour shortages while, paradoxically, the city has the highest unemployment
rate in the country, a seminar on labour heard in HCM City on Wednesday.
A survey tabled by the Institute
for Social and Labour Sciences at the seminar placed unemployment in HCM City
at 1.24 per cent, blaming it on the fact that many workers cherry-picked jobs
rather than accept what was available and on poor training.
Nearly 50 per cent of unemployed
workers refused jobs they were offered, saying the pay was lower than expected.
On the other hand, despite the
city's high rate of trained labour (52.72 per cent), many workers could not meet
employers' requirements.
As a result, 35 per cent of the
unemployed were found to lack the experience or skills required to get jobs.
The finance and banking sector
offered the highest salary of VND6.27 million per month on average, followed by
the water, power, and gas sectors, at around VND5.53 million.
Domestic help brought up the rear
with around VND2.7 million per month.
Nguyen Huyen Le, head of the
Institute's Labour - Payment Division, said: "It is not the shortage of
employment opportunities but a gap between workers' demands and what is on
offer that creates unemployment."
In a big city like HCM City, one
of the major causes of unemployment is workers' demand for higher salaries,
better working conditions, and better career options, she said.
The survey found that 52 per cent
of employers faced difficulties in finding skilled workers, especially after
investing in improving production technologies.
Almost a quarter said there was a
gap between the skills workers had and those required by the market, while more
than a third said new skilled workers did not meet the requirements of their
job.
There were certain causes for the
insufficient labour supply.
The development of many
"unofficial" services had created other employment opportunities —
albeit unstable and poorly paid — for tens of thousands of workers.
Employers' exploitation and
unfairness in salary payment were also reasons for the lack of workers.
Besides, many graduates from
intermediate vocational schools were employed and paid as unskilled workers,
making workers reluctant to enter vocational schools.
Narrowing the supply gap
To reduce the supply gap the
study called on the education sector to restructure vocational schools to
provide quality workers for every sector.
They had to remain abreast of the
changing demands.
Enterprises had to apprise labour
management and forecast agencies about their needs.
VietNamNet/VNS
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