Collective work stoppage among packaging workers: Company agrees to raise wages

(Dan Tri) - From April, Zonsen International Packaging Company Limited - Nghe An Branch will increase the basic salary to 4,950,000 VND/month according to the request of employees.

On March 22, Ms. Tran Thi Nguyet, Vice President of the Trade Union of the Southeast Economic Zone of Nghe An, said that on the same morning, all workers and employees of Zonsen International Packaging Company Limited - Nghe An Branch had returned to work as usual.

This is the result of a dialogue between workers and business leaders witnessed by the trade union and authorities on the afternoon of March 21, after 72 out of 140 workers stopped working.

On the morning of March 22, all workers and employees of Zonsen International Packaging Company Limited - Nghe An Branch returned to work as usual after 1 day of collective work stoppage (Photo: Hoang Lam).

At the dialogue, the enterprise agreed to increase the basic salary by 300,000 VND/person/month (from 4,410,000 VND/month to 4,710,000 VND/month).

Workers' petitions related to attendance payments, penalty payments, overtime hours and the company's unjustified dismissal of workers will be notified of their results on Monday, March 24.

However, by the evening of March 21, a representative of Zonsen International Packaging Company Limited - Nghe An Branch announced that from April, the company will increase the basic salary to 4,950,000 VND/month according to the request of employees.

Ms. Tran Thi Nguyet said that the collective work stoppage by the company's workers was predicted in advance, after the company's request for a wage increase on February 28 was not resolved by the company's leaders. The company's leaders did not organize a dialogue with the workers and blocked the messaging function in the company's Zalo group.

Trade union representatives collect petitions from employees of Zonsen International Packaging Company Limited - Nghe An Branch on the morning of March 21 (Photo: Nguyen Tien).

During the supervision of the implementation of the law on occupational safety and hygiene at Zonsen International Packaging Company Limited - Nghe An Branch in March 2024, the supervision team of the Southeast Nghe An Economic Zone discovered that this enterprise had not signed contracts, paid social insurance for 21/123 employees, had not developed a collective labor agreement, had not developed a salary scale...

The monitoring team also discovered that the company also applied fines and deducted wages from employees in violation of the Labor Law and had not yet established grassroots democracy regulations at the workplace.

In addition, this company also has many violations and shortcomings in the implementation of the Law on Labor Safety and Hygiene.

The monitoring team requested Zonsen International Packaging Company Limited - Nghe An Branch to implement contents related to labor law, labor safety and hygiene, Social Insurance Law... However, at this time, some of the monitoring team's requests have not been implemented by this enterprise.

Working with the representative of the Trade Union of the Southeast Economic Zone of Nghe An on the morning of March 21, workers of Zonsen International Packaging Company Limited - Nghe An Branch requested the company to increase the basic salary from 4,410,000 VND to 4,950,000 VND/month; increase the attendance allowance from 200,000 VND/month to 300,000 VND/month; not to require too much overtime (currently overtime is 4-5 hours/day) and not to dismiss workers unreasonably when orders decrease.

In addition, workers also reported that the company is applying a policy of deducting 300,000 VND for one mistake, while this mistake is due to workers being forced to work hard, not intentionally.

Source: https://dantri.com.vn/lao-dong-viec-lam/vu-cong-nhan-bao-bi-ngung-viec-tap-the-doanh-nghiep-dong-y-tang-luong-20250322162526877.htm