Dongguan shoe company "labor shortage" pain

Recently, a comprehensive job fair for talents was held at Houjie Plaza in Dongguan. It is understood that the recruitment will attract more than 200 Dongguan companies to recruit more than 4,000 jobs, but unfortunately there are few candidates. A person in charge of the recruitment of leather shoe processing companies said: "Even if the monthly salary is raised to 1600 yuan, there will still be insufficient workers."

However, letting shoe companies in Dongguan not only “work shortages”, the transformation pains of falling industrial profits caused by the appreciation of the renminbi and rising raw materials made them even more impressed. Ms. Zhou, who works in the foreign trade export center of a finished shoe guarantee and sales center in Houjie, told reporters: “After the economic crisis, many export companies turned their original export products into domestic sales. However, the shortage of employment made enterprises have to increase the wages of workers. Coupled with the increase in raw materials, the company's profits have decreased. In the past two or three months, the price of leather and sheepskin shoes has risen by 30%."

The rise in the price of raw materials has been transmitted from the industrial chain to shoe-making enterprises. A number of shoe factories visited by the reporter have stated that there is a lot of pressure on the increase in the cost of raw materials. The direct consequence of rising raw material prices is to squeeze the profit margins of shoe-making companies. Dongguan shoe companies face multiple pains.