Secret: Behind Youngor's "Ray Man Fine" Notice

A “The most thunderous people’s vacation holiday in history” was issued in “a round of salary deductions before and after the Spring Festival.” In the context of the Spring Festival reunion, the Ningbo Youngor Textile Printing and Dyeing Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as “Japan Textile”) and Youngor pushed the wave of public opinion.

Industry insiders believe that this notice is a countermeasure for textile and garment enterprises to cope with absenteeism. In essence, the demographic dividend of China's “manufacturing power” is facing crisis. Chinese manufacturing industry needs to change its thinking in time to cope with this situation.

Textile and garment industry faces "shortage of labor shortage"

Yesterday, relevant people of the Youngor Group stated that the company that took leave of wages before and after the Spring Festival was just a subsidiary of Youngor, and that other group companies had normal operations. Xu Lei, chairman of Rifang Textile, also told reporters that the notice had been revoked. Xu Lei also said that this year's foreign trade orders are a particularly good year, processing volume increased by about 10% over the same period last year, the processing amount due to the price of raw materials such as cotton rose by 20% year-on-year, in order to step up orders, the company still has About 70% of the workers are sticking to their posts and it is expected that there will be no problem with completing orders on schedule. However, although the salary of the company's employees has increased by 10% to 20%, the recruitment of Japanese and Chinese textiles still faces greater pressure, Xu Lei admits.

Xu Lei also told reporters that the above notification was targeted at the company's staff and management cadres, and did not target front-line workers. After discovering that it was inconsistent with labor laws and other laws and regulations, the company had already withdrawn the notice and on January 21st. A letter of apology was issued.

Industry insiders also said that the biggest headache for textile and garment factories is that there are still 100 people working today and they fear that only 80 or 60 people will be left to open the next day. The shortage of labor shortages faced by textile and garment companies is very serious.

The person in charge of a textile and clothing company even predicted that in the next 3 to 5 years, due to the insufficient number of workers, there may not be a factory engaged in textile and garment production in the outskirts of Shanghai and the surrounding areas.

Xu Lei told reporters yesterday that Japan-China Textile now provides workers with free meals and dormitories, and that the guaranteed wage in Ningbo is 1,300 yuan, and that China Textile spins out about 2,000 yuan; plus all kinds of income, workers working in Japanese-Chinese textiles The average wage is about 25,000 yuan a year, an increase of 10% to 20%, and some employees' wages rose even more than 20%, but even so, the labor supply of Japan-China textile is still feeling relatively tight.

Transformation model

On the one hand, the tight labor supply is due to the recovery of the international textile and clothing market after the financial crisis in 2008. On the other hand, compared with other industries, the clothing industry is relatively hard in terms of working environment and labor intensity, and it is less attractive to young people. Service industry.

In the face of shortage of work, companies have already begun to build factories in counties and cities in the provinces with large labor force, and even migrated to towns and villages. However, even so, companies still face other issues.

Luo Weiming, chairman of Shanghai Longshang Textiles Co., Ltd., told reporters that the company had built a new garment processing factory in Bozhou, Anhui, and the salaries it offered were not much lower than Shanghai's. He said that a factory worker in Shanghai can get a salary of about 3,000 yuan a month for a worker who works for 12 hours a day, and at a price of 2,000 yuan a year in Zhuozhou. Although he looks a bit low, workers generally only work in Zhangzhou. In an hour, I finished my class and returned home. From the hourly salary, Quzhou and Shanghai are basically the same.

Luo Weiming said that the newly-built factory is ready to start after the Spring Festival and needs to recruit 220 workers. Although it is built in Zhangzhou, Anhui Province, recruitment is still a headache, and the number of workers recruited now accounts for about 70% of the required number. Some of them were recruited in the form of digging feet. These workers originally worked in Suzhou, Wuxi and Changzhou. They saw that the factory was built at the door of the house and it was easy to go to work, so they decided to come back to work.

Relevant personages of JinBa company also introduced that in order to allow workers to work at ease, JinBai is slightly higher than its peers in terms of processing fees. Before the Spring Festival, a unified chartered car to solve the worries of workers returning home, properly raise the workers' salaries, and skilled workers. The highest monthly income can reach 7,000 to 8,000 yuan. In recent years, the proportion of workers returning to work after the Spring Festival has reached 80% to 90%.

Continuously improving the treatment of workers to solve the shortage of labor in the textile and clothing industry cannot solve problems once and for all. A company official who does OEM work for multinational clothing brands says that the cost of a piece of clothing for OEM is $19. With a profit of $1, the company sells it for $20, and the multinational clothing company raises the price by 9~10. Times sold to consumers, the profitability of foundry is only 5%, if you continue to increase the wages of workers, profits will be exhausted.

Luo Weiming said that there are orders for foreign trade in the hands, but the lack of a garment processing factory that matches the strength can only increase the R&D and design capabilities of garments on the basis of the factories in Anhui where the labor force is relatively rich and the future. It will be possible to truly solve the development obstacles brought about by the shortage of labor force by building its own brand of domestic clothing within 5 years and gradually reducing its dependence on foreign trade business.