More than 1,000 businesses and more than 304,000 workers returned to work in Bac Ninh, reaching more than 90% compared to before the Covid-19 outbreak.
Mr. Bui Hoang Mai, Head of the Management Board of Industrial Parks said the above during a dialogue to remove problems after the Covid-19 epidemic in Bac Ninh province with more than 180 foreign invested enterprises (FDI), on the morning of 17
At the dialogue, most businesses expressed their wish for Bac Ninh to allow workers from outside the province to choose their own means of transportation to work instead of having to travel in the same group car, in some places there are only one or two.
Mr. Bui Hoang Mai, Director of Bac Ninh Industrial Zones Management Board.
`My company has workers with household registration in Hanoi, but the workplace is only 1-2 km away, so they still have to eat and stay at the company or have a shuttle bus, which is very inconvenient. Can the province have any other plans to facilitate this?`
Answering the above question, Mr. Mai said that in the context of the epidemic still being complicated, there must still be a shuttle bus.
`If workers are allowed to ride their own motorbikes, it will be difficult to control the movement process. If they contract an epidemic, it will not be easy to trace and affect the business itself,` Mr. Mai said, adding that the coming days will depend on
The second concern is the entry approval for foreign experts and shortening the quarantine time of these subjects.
Representative of Diana Unicharm Company expressed concern.
`According to current regulations, it is necessary to be quarantined in a centralized location for 14 days, then quarantined at a hotel for another 14 days before being able to go to work. Such time affects the working time budget,` this person said.
Mr. Vuong Quoc Tuan, Vice Chairman of the People’s Committee of Bac Ninh province, said that in April-May the epidemic was complicated, so immigration applications for experts were backlogged by more than 300 people, this number is very large.
`Next week, the Industrial Park Management Board will compile a list, and the Provincial People’s Committee leaders will preside over working with the consulting team to consider all relevant factors such as epidemiology and procedures to resolve backlogs.
Regarding the plan to reduce the quarantine time, Ms. To Thi Mai Hoa, Director of the Department of Health, said she is developing a plan to report to the province.
Mr. Vuong Quoc Tuan, Vice Chairman of Bac Ninh Provincial People’s Committee.
The third concern is that businesses have to arrange for workers to eat three meals at the company, which is costly and time-consuming.
In response, the leaders of Bac Ninh province said that workers are subjects that need to be protected so as not to disrupt production, so the regulation that workers eat three meals at the factory is mandatory, there can be no such thing as liking or disliking food.
Enterprises arrange for workers to leave the evening shift no later than 8:00 p.m. every day. When the workers return home at 9:00 p.m., the inn owners must take attendance, and all business households in the vicinity of the inn must close.
`By the end of September at the latest, companies will arrange for each company to live in a boarding house, not allowing multiple companies to live in one area so that when there is an infection, it can be easily traced and only affects one factory,` Mr. Tuan
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