Impacted by the difficult global economy, only in 2023, PouYuen Vietnam Co., Ltd., headquartered in Binh Tan District, is the largest labor-intensive enterprise in Ho Chi Minh City. Often referred to as the “Samsung of the shoe industry,” it has implemented 3 rounds of labor reduction with a total of 9,500 workers laid off.
PouYuen is a subsidiary of Pou Chen Group (Taiwan, China). Pou Chen is currently the manufacturer of sports shoes for Nike, Adidas, New Balance, Timberland, and Salomon with a capacity of over 300 million pairs of shoes per year, accounting for about 20% of the total wholesale value of the global sports shoe market.
However, there is good news for workers in the industry. Since the end of 2023 until early 2024, the company has announced a large-scale recruitment of workers to serve production activities.
Recently, at a meeting of the Labor – Invalids and Social Affairs sector of Ho Chi Minh City in February, Ms. Tran Le Thanh Truc, Head of Employment – Occupational Safety Division, said that PouYuen Company needs to recruit 1,000 workers and is willing to recruit workers over 40 years old.
Earlier, at the end of 2023, the company announced that the order situation had become more optimistic. At the job fair held in December 2023 at the Ho Chi Minh City Labor Cultural Palace, PouYuen also participated in recruiting personnel for production orders in 2024.
The recruitment personnel of the company shared that the company currently has orders until the end of February 2024, and some factories even have orders until June 2024.
Along with PouYuen, many businesses in the leather and footwear, textile and garment industry have also resumed recruitment at the end of 2023.
Worldon Vietnam Co., Ltd. (Southeast Industrial Zone, Cu Chi District, Ho Chi Minh City), specializing in apparel and leather shoes, needs to recruit nearly 8,000 workers with monthly incomes ranging from 7-10 million VND.
Viet Tien Investment Corporation also has a demand to recruit over 1,000 workers for many positions, with salaries ranging from 11-30 million VND per month.
Data from the General Statistics Office shows that in the first 2 months of the year, footwear exports reached over 3.27 billion USD, an increase of over 18% compared to the same period. Meanwhile, textile and garment exports reached nearly 5.23 billion USD, an increase of 15% compared to the same period.
