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about Yiwu Boss Lao Jin, this winter is a little early.

Lao Jin himself has a stockings factory. By the end of this month, there will be about 10000000 yuan to be rushed out, at least forty or fifty workers.

But he spent three days squatting last week before he recruited two long-term workers.

In the human resources market of Xiangshan Road in Yiwu, Lao Jin is not a "minority" - countless Yiwu bosses who are making up orders, holding a small brand of "recruiting" every day, with a worried look.

There are no workers in the market, but they are dismissive of bosses with monthly salary tags, but they are full of foreign accents before recruiting advertisements for timers and pieceworkers.

Looking at the stream of people on the Xiangshan Road, Lao Jin tightened his collar tightly. "Chaos and confusion, the labor market is completely messed up."

Hard work for long work

The monthly salary is two thousand or three thousand, and only 3 people are recruited in a week.

Lao Jin's salary for the recruitment is not low: 2000 ~3500 yuan / month, both fresh and married.

"The wages have gone up, the request has also come down, still nobody." Lao Jin said, in the early two years, such conditions open out, a day down, one hundred or two hundred people can pull away.

Also worried about the small high, he is Yiwu twenty three mile industrial area. Leather goods The factory's proofing Master said, "in December, there were 60 thousand bags and orders. Last week, I came 3 times, and only 3 people were willing to work long hours."

The salary of Xiao Gao is: the parking space is 1700 ~2800 yuan / month, the proficient 1500~2500 is yuan / month, the general worker is 1500 yuan / month.

Like most booth workers, the monthly salary standard provided by Xiao Gao has increased by two hundred or three hundred yuan compared with the beginning of the year.

But his booth was still cold. Every once in a while, little Gao's boss would call to ask questions, and the answer would always be "no".

Hot job

As time goes by, the hourly wage has doubled since the beginning of the year.

The boss likes long term work because the long-term workers can maintain efficiency and quality stability, and the workers obviously prefer to be a part-time job.

In Yiwu's human resources market, there are some trucks coming in at seven or eight a.m. every morning. As soon as the cars that represent "odd jobs" stop, there will be a large number of workers rushing in. Soon, more than a dozen people squeeze into the car, and the van rushing off.

In this process, the two sides do not even need any language communication.

Lao Chen is a "recruiting agent" in the market. Every time he introduces a long-term worker, the boss gives him 100 yuan introduction fee. Recently, his business is very bad.

"People are doing odd jobs. Such as low packaging technology, the most suitable for odd jobs, one day a day's money, everyone is willing to.

At present, the price of Yiwu odd job market has risen from 5 yuan / hour at the beginning of the year to 10 yuan / hour.

Strange confrontation

The boss can't get long jobs, and odd jobs can't earn money {page_break}

Peng Yanzhen, 30, is a Jingdezhen native of Jiangxi. His eyes are bloodshot and hoarse. He has resigned from the factory for more than two months. Although he has no money in his pocket, he still sticks to his part-time job. "If you work as a long-term worker, you won't get 3000 yuan (monthly salary)."

Peng Yanzhen said that he had worked as a long-term worker from 7:30 am to 10:30 pm, and did not rest at noon. "The labor time is too long for the body to eat."

Peng Yanzhen's fellow townsman Qi Lin had the same feeling. "Doing odd jobs for 10 hours a day can earn 80~100 yuan and look at the imbalance in mind." So he quit his job.

But the bosses believe that this is not the real reason for workers to "grow short". Xiao Gao, a leather goods factory, said, "now young people are too good at their abilities to bear the heart technology."

In two months, Peng Yanzhen and Qi Guolin went in and out of 7 factories for three or four days. Because of their unstable income and daily expenses, they earned a ticket.

Interpretation: behind the "hard work of long employment" is the attractiveness of labor-intensive enterprises.

Huang Yunlong, director of Yiwu Employment Management Service Bureau, believes that the low technology content and strong substitutability of labor-intensive enterprises are the crux of Yiwu's long term predicament.

"Labor-intensive enterprises with low added value require enterprises to control labor costs and extend labor hours." Huang Yunlong said, "the education level of the new generation of migrant workers has been improved, and this long time labor is not attractive to them."

"This leads to a normal turnover of employees, because finding jobs is too easy and they don't want to do it.

Huang Yunlong believes that the first generation of migrant workers bear a lot of pressure on life, so they are more hardworking, and the second generation of migrant workers have less life pressure, so there is a lack of goals.

"Later, these are Yiwu. Labour-intensive Recruitment will become more and more difficult.

Employment changes in Yiwu in the past 20 years

Huang Keqian, 49 years old, came out of Yiwu printing and dyeing mill in 1990 and worked alone. Now he is engaged in three industries, including textile, printing and dyeing, and line making. There are factories in Yiwu and Pujiang.

In the past 20 years, Huang Keqian has witnessed the change of employment in Yiwu, and he sighed with the exclamation: "Yiwu now is hard to recruit and difficult to retain."

2010 salary is 2500 yuan.

2006 salary is 2000 yuan.

2000 salary is 1000 yuan.

1990 salary is 150 yuan.

There is no long-term job at all.

This year is Huang Keqian's 20 years of entrepreneurship. He has just taken about 10 thousand square meters of land, and intends to expand the scale of the enterprise. But the shortfall of employment in the next 500 years has made him worry. "The wages of ordinary workers now rise to 2500 yuan / month, but the labor market simply can not recruit people. Now, skilled workers are better recruited. The most difficult ones are ordinary workers.

The workers are very good.

In 1990, Huang Keqian, who started his own business, opened a printing and dyeing mill, with only 10 workers. Huang Keqian recalled that at that time, the general workers were living in bags and living rooms, earning 150 yuan a month, and the technical work of proofing and matching colors was 300~400 yuan / month. "At that time was the first generation of migrant workers, very good recruiting, very hard-working."

Personnel are relatively stable {page_break}

In 2000, Huang Keqian involved three industries, including textile, printing and dyeing, and line making. There were more than 200 workers in the factory. They were usually friends and dependers brought from their hometown. At this time, the wages of workers rose to more than 1000 yuan / month.

Start working hard

In 2006, there was an increase in employment in the Pearl River Delta region, and some labor export provinces began to attract local labor force. Yiwu began to labor shortage. At that time, Huang Keqian's salary was 2000 yuan / month, but it was still difficult to recruit workers, and the situation could only be stabilized by the workers' model of villagers.