There have been changes in the labor market due to impacts from the COVID-19 pandemic: there have been labor shortages in all sectors, together with the fact that laborers want to work exitime. is becomes challenges to enterprises when the world’s economy is blooming back and most enterprises seek full-time workers.
Another reason is that people a er contracting Covid-19 are a ected by many sequelas as impaired memory and being inactive. Many want to return to their hometown to live with their family.
DIFFICULTIES FROM LABORERS
Employees operating in the logistics seem to be affected in different ways in diffculties from the pandemic: many lost their jobs; some suffered from diseases and limitations as tight managements in the time of the epidemic. They had to undergo medical check-ups, and a lot of paperwork, which makes transport slow and costs higher.
After the pandemic, customers seem familiar with online ordering and home delivery. If before the pandemic, ‘logistics’ was still a strange word, but now, customers not only in Vietnam and all over the world know clearly about it.
This is an advantage but also a big challenge for transport, especially delivery men, they need good health, technology skills and are able to apply technology in locating address, receiving orders from applications. In some European countries, UAVs or automatic trucks have been used for last-mile delivery instead of delivery men.
ENTERPRISES SEEKING LABORERS
Facing serious shortages of labor resources, southern provinces and cities have participated in job session to look for new human resources- an effective method to help enterprises acquire labor resources, but save time and recruitment costs.
Employees also have conditions to access online recruitment methods, nd out information about job opportunities at home and abroad. Many employers can also do face-to-face interviews over the internet to find suitable candidates.
Regarding young human resources in Logistics, in recent years at colleges and universities, the number of applications for admission to the Logistics- Tourism majors has always received attention and registration of many candidates and entrance scores are always high compared to those of other faculties.
However, logistics enterprises in Vietnam always have a high demand for quality human resources, capable of meeting both operational levels and planning and management levels. In the context of the Industry 4.0 with artificial intelligence, the internet, and modern tools that are changing the world, logistics human resources, in addition to specialized capacity, also need foreign language skills, computer skills and so skills to adapt to market changes.
According to the Workshop “Developing a stable labor supply chain after the Covid -19 pandemic”, the reported figures showed challenges of economic recovery, including a severely reduced labor supply. The labor force from the age of 15 and over decreased the most in the third quarter of 2021, to only 49.1 million people; The labor force employed in the fourth quarter of 2021 was 49.07 million people, 1.79 million people lower than the same period last year.
The rate of underemployed and unemployed workers increased sharply, reaching the highest peak in the third quarter of 2021 with 3.98% (more than 1.7 million employees); the unemployment rate in urban areas was highest in the third quarter of 2021 at 5.54%.
Employees’ salaries and incomes decrease, their life is difficult. The average income/month of employees is from VND 6.7 million/month (in 2019) to VND 5.3 million /monthin 2021); there was the deepest decrease is in the third quarter of 2021 to only VND 5.2 million /month.
(Source: Nhan Dan newspaper)
According to the Vietnam Logistics Service Business Association (VLA), the country currently has about 4,000 Logistics enterprises operating professionally and a logistics network connecting internationally out of a total of 29,000 enterprises registered for business codes related to the eld of logistics. In the field of logistics, the issue of personnel shortage is always concerned and focused by enterprises.
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