Despite difficulties, many businesses remain committed to ensuring sufficient salaries for workers during leaves of social distancing against Covid-19 epidemic.

According to Hanoi Social Insurance, up to now, the number of enterprises reducing over 50% of labor is 4,727 firms with 35,658 employees; 22 companies have been certified by the Labor, Agency of War Invalids and Social Affairs to suspend the payment for retirement and survivorship fund but have not submitted the dossier to the social insurance agency. The number of units that have temporarily stopped making contributions to the retirement and survivorship fund from April 2020 is 02 units with 21 employees.

Particularly in HCMC, up to now, about 78,500 workers, workers and preschool teachers have been unemployed due to the Covid-19 disease epidemic. With an initial support of about VND 236 billion, the support level for workers, laborers, preschool teachers are 1 million VND/person/month in 3 months (from April to June).

With such a situation, any enterprise that still ensures income and life for workers during the period of isolation and social distancing is a valuable effort.

Pou Yuen Vietnam Co., Ltd (Tan Tao Industrial Park, Binh Tan District, Ho Chi Minh City) has just announced to ensure all benefits for workers during the time of temporary work stoppage to prevent Covid-19. In particular, during the time of disease prevention, workers' salary are calculated according to the regional minimum wage of VDN 4.42 million dong/month.

In the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic, at Deo Ca Group, a number of senior advisers wrote offer letters to reduce their remuneration to share with the common difficulties. However, Mr. Ho Minh Hoang, Chairman of Deo Ca Group did not agree with the motion. He affirmed: “At this time, despite being negatively affected by the Covid-19 epidemic, Deo Ca Group did not allow slow pay or pay cuts for any employees in the whole Group”.

Chairman of Deo Ca Group Ho Minh Hoang checks the progress of the project in the night.

Mr. Ho Minh Hoang said, in the current context, many people questioned him, what Deo Ca Group will do to overcome this difficult period when many businesses, even well-known businesses have planned to suspend, cut jobs and reduce salary. Mr. Ho Minh Hoang informed that over the past time, the Group has arranged employees to work from home, this is the implementation of "social distancing" under the direction of the Government. They do not get salary reduction or slow paid”.

In this regard, the head of Deo Ca Group said that in the awareness and motto of the Group if the society stood still, Deo Ca still moved. Deo Ca responded and complied with the direction of the Government in the prevention of epidemic, keep social distancing to overcome Covid-19.

For Deo Ca Group, this is also an opportunity to isolate external transactions, choose the appropriate distance to carry out the “Restructuring, optimizing the management system” in order to adjust the leadership’s thinking; review and re-evaluate key personnels’capacities to establish long term companionship and development strategy of the Group.

At this time, the Board of Directors has adjusted and arranged the scientific working method to prevent, control the epidemic as well as ensure the completion schedules has been committed at key projects such as Hai Van tunnel, Trung Luong - My Thuan expressway.

“Right now, Deo Ca is trying to come up with suitable solutions to ensure income for workers, no one is left behind. We have also proved that determination for nearly 35 years of formation and development. The Group does not allow salaries to be delayed or reduced, financial accumulations must always be provisioned to manage corporate risk in recurrent costs, but top priority is for employees' salaries”. - Mr. Ho Minh Hoang emphasized.

The results from a recent survey of NEU show that businesses have had specific solutions to cope with the difficulties caused by the impact of the pandemic. 65.5% of enterprises have to reduce regular operating expenses, 35.3% of enterprises reduce labor, 34.0% have to reduce salary and 34.5% of enterprises have to give unpaid leave; 44.7% of businesses cut down the scale of production and business; 34.7% of businesses choose to suspend production and business activities to wait the difficult times over and 15.1% of enterprises change their production and business forms to suit the new context.

An Nhi