VietNamNet Bridge – Business owners have affirmed that the new
policy on six-month maternity wouldn’t affect their production plans much.
However, they said they would encourage female workers to return to work sooner
in order to ensure the normal production schedule of enterprises.
From January 1, 2013, female
workers will have the maternity leave period of six months instead of four
months as previously stipulated. The new policy has raised worries to businesses,
especially the ones in the labor intensive fields.
Pham Xuan Hong, General Director
of Saigon 3 Garment Company, who is also the Chair of the HCM City Textile and
Garment Association, said that the new policy would certainly influence the
production schedules of enterprises, where 80 percent of the labor force are
female workers.
“If a lot of workers go on
maternity leave at the same time, this would badly affect our production plan.
We will not be able to take initiative in arranging our schedules, which would
be a big problem for us not only in 2013, but in the upcoming years as well,”
Hong said.
He went on to say that he has
requested the personnel department to draw up the plan providing against the
labor force shortage which may occur when a lot of female workers leave at the
same time. The workers with high skills, who can undertake different works of
the production line, would be preferable.
Especially, Saigon 3 encourages
female workers to come back to work one or two months sooner than stipulated,
accepting to pay higher salaries.
“For example, those who return to
work after four months, would receive 4 million dong a month instead of their
normal pay level of 3.5 million dong. Meanwhile, they would still receive
maternity allowances as well,” Hong said.
Phi Ngoc Trinh, Deputy Manager of
the Ho Guom Garment Company, has also expressed his worry about the new policy,
saying that the production plan would be delayed if too many workers leave at
the same time.
“It is a new policy and we still
have not time to think about what to do to deal with the problem and how to
encourage workers to come back to work soon,” Trinh said.
He said that it is not easy for
enterprises to find workers to replace the workers in the production line. In
general, laborers need to be trained in order to satisfy the requirements of
the company. Therefore, Ho Guom has not found any perfect solution so far.
Meanwhile, Pham Thanh Giang from
Vissan, a food supplier, said that in case many female workers leave at the same
time, the enterprise would apply the “in-place productivity offsetting policy,”
which means that the enterprise would not recruit new employees to fill in the
gaps in the production lines, but it would encourage other workers to increase
their productivity.
Besides, Giang also said that the
company is following a policy on training workers in order to ensure sufficient
labor force in case too many female workers leave at the same time. 40 percent
of Vissan’s labor force is female workers.
Affirming that the new policy
would in no way affect the company’s operation, Nguyen Hoang Giang, General
Director of VnDirect--a securities company, said he would offer preferences to
those who return to work sooner than expected, or come back to work at the
calls of the company.
“They can stay at the office for
half a day and the other half at home, but they would still get the whole
monthly salary,” Giang said.
VNE
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