1 month of wandering to find a job of a 36-year-old female worker who lost her job

The company encouraged workers to quit their jobs.

"Until now, I still wonder if my decision to accept resignation was right," Ms. Nguyen Thi Thu Huyen (from Phu Tho ) began her story.

Coming from a poor family, Huyen gave up her dream of going to university at a young age to work in a factory and earn money at the age of 18. Up to now, she has spent nearly 2 decades working as a worker at a glass manufacturing company in Thang Long Industrial Park (Dong Anh, Hanoi ).

She still remembers September 2005, when she held her first salary of 800,000 VND in her hand, she was extremely happy because she had money to take care of her life and send a little back home to help her mother raise her younger siblings.

Over the years, this job has helped her to make ends meet in the capital. After getting married, she and her husband nurtured the dream of buying a house and settling down thanks to the steady monthly salary they earned working in a factory.

After many years of hard work, they were able to buy a house in Nam Hong commune (Dong Anh district) thanks to their savings and loans.

Ms. Huyen still hopes to find a job during office hours to have time for her family (Photo: Que Chi).

Difficulties and pressure piled up from May 2022. At that time, the company started to have fewer orders, workers only worked during office hours, and all overtime was cut. While many other companies were still working regularly, after 3 months of "cutting overtime", she received a notice of 15 days off.

Idleness is really scary for workers who run out of money when they sweat. With the mortgage debt still hanging over her head, Ms. Huyen was quite stressed at that time.

Entering 2023, the situation of orders has decreased even more sharply. For every 7 days of work, workers have 3 days off.

The situation lasted for a whole year, the female worker was extremely discouraged. Previously, the working environment and treatment of the company were quite good, Ms. Huyen decided to stick with it, spending more time at the factory than at home.

Having spent her entire youth here, the company is not simply a workplace, but for "loyal" workers like Ms. Huyen, this is truly a second home.

Now that the company has to encourage workers to quit, Ms. Huyen has been very hesitant and has had to consult many people. In the end, with no other choice, she agreed to sign a voluntary resignation form and receive severance pay of 9 months of basic salary.

"I don't know if I can find a job here that is similar to the position we used to do," the female worker shared.

"Old" workers looking for jobs

It has been more than a month since she received the decision to terminate her labor contract. During the same period, Ms. Huyen has been wandering around looking for a job.

She learned to join industrial park worker groups on social networks to look for jobs. Seeing many companies recruiting workers, Ms. Huyen still could not find a suitable place.

She also drove around to factories and companies in Thang Long Industrial Park twice and even to Quang Minh Industrial Park (Me Linh) to find work.

"The company that I found a suitable job with a good salary only recruits workers up to 32 years old, while I am 36," said Ms. Huyen.

Female workers also tried to find jobs outside the factory.

She said: "I found a job selling clothes but I haven't worked a single day yet, the store made me pay 1 million VND for clothes. The thing is, I worked for a whole month but my salary was only nearly 4 million VND."

Strengthen job connections for workers.

Deciding to "turn around", she accepted an hourly job with a security unit. However, the workplace was 20km away from home.

At 6pm, she took her bike home. The pouring rain made her steering wheel wobble and she almost fell several times on the long journey home. At this time, she burst into tears thinking about her old job with a stable salary, which only ended at 5:30pm. At this time, she had finished cooking dinner for her family.

Her husband often works far away from home, so she has to take care of and pick up her children from school by herself. Therefore, she hopes for an office job with an average salary. However, that wish is too far away for her now and she doesn't know when her job search will end...

In the first 7 months of the year, Hanoi decided to provide unemployment insurance benefits to more than 48,000 people with a support amount of over 1,300 billion VND; and vocational training support for 585 people with a total amount of nearly 2.7 billion VND.

According to a representative of the Hanoi Employment Service Center, the increase in the number of workers enjoying unemployment insurance policies in the area is a reality of the labor market.

Although it is recorded that businesses have to lay off workers and reduce their workforce, however, through direct assessment from the database of workers receiving unemployment benefits, in Hanoi there is no situation of businesses massively laying off workers.

Although the number of people receiving unemployment insurance policies has increased compared to the same period, it is not yet at a worrying level (in the first 7 months of 2022, over 35,500 people were received, assessed and decided to receive unemployment insurance benefits with a support budget of over VND 932 billion).

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