Behind The Fines Of YOUNGOR: Textile And Garment Industry Bid Farewell To Demographic Dividend

A "Notice of the most frequent holiday in the history" before and after the Spring Festival, which is three times the wages, is the Ningbo YOUNGOR Sino Japan Textile printing and dyeing Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Japan China spinning").

The industry believes that the notice is on the surface of textile and garment enterprises to cope with the phenomenon of shortage of workers, in essence, is China's "big manufacturing" demographic dividend is facing a crisis, China's manufacturing industry needs to change ideas in a timely manner to cope with this situation.

Yesterday, the YOUNGOR group said that the company that asked for the deduction of wages before and after the Spring Festival was only a subsidiary of YOUNGOR. Other enterprises in the group were operating normally.

Xu Lei, chairman of Japan Textile Corporation, also said to the first financial daily (micro-blog) daily that the notice had been withdrawn.

Xu Lei also said that this year's foreign trade orders are particularly good year, the processing volume increased by about 10% over the same period last year, and the processing amount increased by 20% over the same period because of the rising prices of raw materials such as cotton. In order to step up the completion of orders, about 70% of the company's workers are sticking to their posts. It is expected that the order will be completed on schedule.

However, although the company's wages have increased by 10%~20%, but the Japanese textile workers still face greater pressure, Xu Lei admits.

Xu Lei also told reporters that the object of the notice was targeted at the staff and management staff of the company, and was not targeted at front-line workers. The company had withdrawn the notice after finding that it was not in conformity with the labor laws and other laws and regulations, and sent an apology letter in January 21st.

There are also people in the industry who say that the biggest headache for textile and garment factories is that there are still 100 people working today, even if there are only 80 or even 60 people to open the doors for second days.

The shortage of labor shortage faced by textile and garment enterprises is very serious.

The head of a textile and garment enterprise even predicted that in the next 3~5 years, due to insufficient number of workers, Shanghai and its surrounding areas would not be able to find a factory for textile and garment production.

Xu Lei told reporters yesterday that Japan China textile is now providing free meals and dormitories for workers, and the bottom wage is 1300 yuan in Ningbo, and 2000 yuan in Japan's spinning. With all kinds of income, the average wage of workers working in Japan spinning is about 25 thousand yuan a year, up to 10%~20%, and some employees' wage increase is even more than 20%, but even so, the labor supply of Japan textile is still tense.

On the one hand, the shortage of labor supply is due to the rebound of the international textile and garment market after the financial crisis in 2008. On the other hand, compared with other industries, the clothing industry is relatively bitter in terms of working environment and labor intensity, and the attraction for young people is not as attractive as that of the service industry.

In the face of shortage of labor, some enterprises have begun to build factories into counties and cities with large labor force, and even move to towns and townships.

However, even so, enterprises still face other problems.

Luo Weiming, chairman of Shanghai dragon textile company, told reporters that the company set up a garment processing plant in Chuzhou, Anhui. The wage level is not much lower than that of Shanghai.

He said that in a factory in Shanghai, a lathe worker can get a salary of around 3000 yuan a month, 12 hours a day, and 2000 yuan in Chuzhou, although it looks a little lower, but in Chuzhou, the workers usually work for 8 hours, and they go home after class.

Luo Weiming said that the new factory is ready to start after the Spring Festival, which requires 220 workers to be recruited. Although built in Chuzhou, Anhui, recruitment is still a troublesome problem. The number of workers recruited now accounts for about 70% of the required number. Some of them are recruited through the form of dug up feet. They originally worked in Suzhou, Wuxi and Changzhou, and saw that the factory was built at the door, so that they decided to return to work.

The company also introduced that in order to make workers work at ease, the RBA is slightly higher in processing fees than the peers. Before the Spring Festival, it will solve the worries of workers returning home after the Spring Festival, and appropriately raise the level of workers' remuneration. The maximum income of skilled workmen can reach 7000~8000 yuan a month. In recent years, the proportion of workers returning to RB after the Spring Festival has reached 80%~90%.

Constantly improving the treatment of workers and solving the shortage of labour in the textile and garment industry can not solve the problem once and for all.

A company who acts as a foundry for multinational clothing brands said that a garment for a foundry costs $19, plus a profit of $1, and the company sells it at 1 US $20. The price of the multinational garment enterprise is 9~10 times higher than that of the consumer. The profit margin of the OEM is only 5%. If we continue to raise the wages of the workers, the profits will be exhausted.

Luo Weiming said that now there are foreign trade orders, but the lack of strength matching clothing processing plants, can only build their own factories in Anhui, where the labor force is relatively abundant. In the future, on the basis of factories, we should gradually enhance the R & D design ability of clothing, and build our own brand of clothing within 3~5 years, and gradually reduce the dependence on foreign trade business, so that we can really solve the development obstacles caused by labor shortage.