The first week of January 2020 has ended, and the Spring Festival has also moved forward. The entire textile printing and dyeing market is enveloped in various holiday atmospheres. However, during the holiday, the textile market still showed some problems.
Production has not been suspended yet, but production capacity has been greatly affected
Although the textile market is not good this year, the entire textile market is not optimistic about the Spring Festival holiday time for printing and dyeing plants. It’s still quite sensitive, because almost every company has some orders to some extent, and they just want to answer questions that they don’t want to answer. Textile people have always paid attention to the shutdown time mainly by looking at the time when the relevant thermal power plants shut down steam. However, in fact, some conditions inside the dyeing factory are often ignored, especially the workers.
The textile industry is an industry that requires a large amount of labor, so the impact of changes in the labor force must not be ignored in the development process of the textile industry. This impact is particularly prominent at the end of the year and the beginning of the year.
According to feedback from a trader, a dyeing factory they are working in is still two or three days away from shutting down production. Currently, there are 4 tanks of pre-processed cloth waiting to be dyed in the dyeing tank. But the workshop director couldn’t arrange it, because many workers had already gone home, and the factory had only machines but no one was producing.
In fact, this situation occurs in most factories at the end of every year. However, in years when the market is better, factories will introduce some strong measures to prevent employees from returning early. For example, during the Spring Festival last year, a dyeing factory in the Jiaxing area had a lot of orders before the year, and until half a month ago, new gray fabrics were still coming into the market. In order to prevent workers from going home early, which will cause production capacity to be limited and production to drop, causing customer orders to be unable to be completed in time, the factory has formulated a very strict penalty measure – any employee who goes home early will have his salary deducted 1,000 yuan one day in advance and two days in advance. That’s 2,000 yuan.
This measure is obviously unrealistic this year, because the textile market is weak, there is a lack of orders, and the factory lacks a reason to strictly require it. Therefore, the situation of employees going home early is more serious, and the impact on production capacity is inevitable. had an impact.
New changes in employment, young employees are the first to go home
In the textile factory this year A significant change is that the problem of “difficulty in recruiting workers” almost does not exist. However, this situation is not because the stability of employees has improved, but because the production pressure on factories has been reduced due to the poor textile market, thus reducing the urgent requirement for the number of workers.
On the other hand, worker mobility has actually increased. According to the person in charge of a dyeing factory, the proportion of young people among today’s workers is increasing. Post-90s, post-95s and even post-00s generations can be seen everywhere, but these young people are not easy to manage. It is not good to have too loose or too tight management. If it is too loose, the productivity and quality of employees will decline; if it is too tight, employees will leave at will.
Normally, textile companies take an earlier and longer holiday during the Spring Festival, but some workers leave earlier and start returning home a month before. Moreover, the employees who left early in the factory are basically young employees who have not yet started a family. They have fewer worries and don’t care much about the salary for working a few more days. They don’t need to wait for their children who haven’t gone on winter vacation yet. Being able to return home early is relatively more important.
The Spring Festival holiday is more than just a holiday. On the one hand, the time when workers return home truly affects the actual production capacity of the factory; on the other hand, it is also an indirect manifestation of the labor problem. Factories will think of various ways to deal with workers going home too early, but some methods are not suitable for the end of each year and for any group of people. Especially in recent years, with the entry of young workers, the employment situation has changed. </p
