2,000 workers to back to work at KaiYang Shoes Company
2,000 workers to back to work at KaiYang Shoes Company
Approximately 2,000 workers of Taiwanese shoes maker-KaiYang Shoes Co. Ltd., in the northern city of Haiphong will resume working on April 20 when the company’s management board basically agreed with their requests, according to Vu Ngoc Thuc, deputy chief of the Legal Department under the Haiphong Labour Federation.
Notably, the company’s management board will reduce the workload, pay the unemployment allowance when the firm temporarily laid workers off in case it does not have enough orders to remain the operation, simultaneously increase the Tet bonuses. However, the company’s management board is still considering paying the 13th month salary to workers.
“The Labour Federation will inspect more often the payment of salaries, allowances and bonuses of businesses in the city in general and foreign invested companies in particular, listen to workers’ claims in order to protect their rights and prevent strikes,” Thuc said.
On April 14, nearly 2,000 workers of KaiYang Vietnam Shoes Co. Ltd., started a strike to protest the heavy workload required by the company’s management board.
The conflict ran high when these workers threw rotten eggs and smelly shrimp paste to those who kept going to work.
According to the workers, they have had a heavy workload. Notably, they have to work continuously for 12 hours per day from 7am to 7pm but still fail to meet the production target required by the company’s management board. Besides, they could not receive the unemployment allowance when the firm temporarily laid them off in case it does not have enough orders to remain the operation.
Workers proposed that the company cut working hours and pay the unemployment allowance but the company’s management board ignored them. The local authorities had to mobilise policemen to prevent the workers from throwing rotten eggs and smelly shrimp paste but failed.
