The factory copes with the requirements of both production and isolation

From yesterday afternoon, Phong Phu International Joint Stock Company in Phong Phu Industrial Cluster (Thu Duc City) arranged for more than 1,000 workers to stay at the factory. This reduces the production scale of the factory by half. In the immediate future, the company will focus on transferring production, giving priority to urgent orders that need to be shipped soon.

"We have just over a day to prepare the '3 on the spot' option since receiving the notice from the authorities," said Ms. Nguyen Thi Lien, deputy general director of Phong Phu International Joint Stock Company.

According to Ms. Lien, the first job of the factory is to mobilize workers to arrange family affairs in the factory to live for at least the next 10 days. The logistics department cleans the office building, and the vacant areas are used as temporary accommodation. Blankets, drapes, and folding beds are ordered and delivered the same day. The restaurant doubles its serving capacity. This morning, all workers were tested to ensure that no pathogens were introduced into the factory.

"Everything is almost done, from tonight all workers will stay at the factory," said Ms. Lien, adding that each worker who stayed was supported from 700,000 VND to one million VND.

Similarly, from tonight, Dai Dung Commercial Construction Mechanical Joint Stock Company will apply a meal plan at work for 1,200 employees at its head office in Tan Binh district, two production workshops in Binh Duong district. Chief. Some people can work remotely, direct production workers but cannot arrange temporary family work at home.

Mr. Nguyen Van Hung, Chairman of the company's trade union, said that the "both production and isolation" plan had been implemented by a factory in An Ha Industrial Park (Binh Chanh District) a week before when it noticed the situation. complex transformation.

Accordingly, the entire empty office and factory floor of 1,000 m2 is used as a sleeping place for nearly 600 workers. In addition to purchasing essential living items, the factory also stores a large amount of dry food such as instant noodles, eggs, sausages, vitamin C, and fruit for workers to eat as snacks. The company coordinates with health authorities to organize weekly testing for employees.

"More than 85% of employees agreed to stay, helping the company's production not be interrupted," said Mr. Hung, adding that to achieve this result, the factory had prepared in advance.

Factories in the Hi-Tech Park (Thu Duc City) are "sprinting" to arrange for workers to live and stay on the spot. Typically, 200 engineers of FPT Software Company who do important projects have to stay, eat, and work at the factory. About 40 technical staff, building operators, kitchens... also stay to support logistics.

"Most businesses with a few thousand employees have to reduce production, maintaining only 20-50% of normal," said Le Bich Loan, deputy manager of the Hi-Tech Park. factories out of a total of 80 factories are ready to implement the "3 on-site" option. Management continues to appraise plans for factories.

Tan Thuan Export Processing Zone (District 7) has more than 250 enterprises, with a total of 70,000 workers. When the District 7 government asked factories to arrange production and accommodation on-site, about 161 businesses registered to do so.

Yesterday, the People's Committee of Ho Chi Minh City issued an urgent document requesting that businesses have a plan to ensure accommodation and production on the new site; workers must live in concentration, have a vehicle to carry from their residence to production, to operate. Businesses that cannot meet the requirements must stop operating  from 0:00 on July 15.

This move was taken by the city government after detecting many infections among workers in high-tech zones, export processing zones and industrial zones. This raises concerns about the risk of epidemics from the worker's accommodation to the production site. The epidemic has penetrated most of the industrial zones in the city. Many factories that discovered dozens of Covid-19 cases were blocked and stopped production.

On the afternoon of July 14, Vice Chairman of the City People's Committee Duong Anh Duc said that the city is building a system to work with industrial park management boards to monitor the performance of businesses. This regulation should be strictly adhered to in order to "cut off the chains of infection of workers connected to the residence".

Pouyuen Vietnam factory (Binh Tan district) with more than 56,000 employees; Vietnam Samho Co., Ltd (Cu Chi district) with about 10,000 employees... stopped production when it failed to meet the above regulations.

Ho Chi Minh City currently has 1.6 million workers working in factories. The Ho Chi Minh City Labor Federation said that as of July 7, more than 1,800 workers and workers were infected with Covid-19. Particularly, the Hi-Tech Park has detected more than 750 infections, Tan Thuan Export Processing Zone has more than 400 cases.

Le Tuyet
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