In the current situation that the cement industry is facing severe challenges, off-peak production has become a way to alleviate the contradiction between supply and demand, but how to ensure the income stability of employees in 180 or 200 days of off-peak shutdown?
According to the survey, during the shutdown period, the cement enterprises mainly have the following coping strategies:
First, direct layoffs: at a time when the profits of cement enterprises are significantly shrinking or even losing money, continuously reducing labor costs by optimizing layoffs has become one of the key strategies for some enterprises to improve operational efficiency.
Second, salary adjustment: in the shutdown stage, according to local laws and regulations, enterprises pay minimum wages to employees, or reduce or deduct performance pay, and the actual wages are greatly reduced.
The third is personnel transfer: the subsidiaries in the region are transferred to each other, for example, when factory A stops production, employees go to work in factory B, and when factory B stops production, employees go to work in factory A.
Fourth, the merger of positions: the merger of similar or complementary positions, so that employees take on more work, but the salary does not increase.
Fifth, transfer posts: transfer the optimized employees after the post merger to the canteen, security, greening and other previously outsourced posts.
"Enterprises are difficult, and our employees are even more difficult," many cement enterprise employees said helplessly.
To sum up, the continuous extension of peak staggering days in the downturn of the industry has had a great impact on the income of employees. In the critical period of transformation and upgrading of the cement industry, the future of employees is not only an economic issue, but also a social responsibility issue, which requires careful consideration and thorough planning by enterprises.
