Chapter 210: Poaching
July 8, 21 years.
China.
Myeongju Port, Samsung Heavy Industries Myeongju Shipyard.
As the shipyard has not received any orders from the headquarters in recent years, its business and efficiency are very low, and Samsung Heavy Industries is ready to close the shipyard.
This news was like a bolt from the blue for the shipyard workers.
Soon many employees started to make a fuss.
However, there are also many employees who have signed outsourcing contracts (similar to labor dispatch), so they cannot make trouble even if they want to. Such employees account for more than half of the total employees.
Regarding this matter, the special branch of the Intelligent Company in the Magic City quickly received this information.
Carmen Lopez, who is in charge of the overall work of the Sapiens company's branch in Greater China, was currently in Shanghai handling a purchase contract for a batch of crane equipment .
When he heard about this, he quickly ordered the Human Resources Department to send people to Mingzhou Port to recruit skilled workers for shipbuilding, especially those outsourced workers who did the hardest and most tiring work but earned much less than regular workers. These people were the easiest to poach.
In fact, in the past one or two years, the human resources department of Zhiren Company has recruited a large number of technical workers in Greater China.
Although East Asia accounts for more than 90% of the world's shipbuilding scale, the wages and benefits are not that high.
Especially in recent years, many shipyards have seen an increase in shipbuilding orders, but have been suffering losses year after year.
The average median income of major shipyards is approximately 5,000 to 7,000 yuan per month.
For example, at Samsung Heavy Industries' Mingzhou Shipyard, due to poor profits, the average median income of employees is only more than 4,000 yuan per month.
The Human Resources Department task and, led by team leader Lu Yinsheng, quickly and secretly contacted the technical workers in the shipyard.
The few electricians and welders who were invited out were also a little flattered. It is indeed difficult to find a job nowadays. Even if you have the skills, you still face huge competitive pressure.
These welders can earn around 300 yuan a day by taking private jobs outside, but this kind of private work is not available every day. In addition, private work often means no strict safety protection, let alone any five social insurances and one housing fund.
The shipbuilding industry as a whole is in a downturn, and the vicious competition among the three major shipbuilding countries in East Asia has caused serious internal competition in the industry.
Don't think that many shipyards can make 5% profit on each ship just because they build millions of tons of ships a year.
In fact, only the high-end products in the shipbuilding industry - LNG ships, can barely make a 5% profit.
From this point, we can see how bad the operating conditions of these shipyards are. Many of their shipbuilding orders are actually made at a loss.
Taking China's shipbuilding industry as an example, the orders completed this year have a revenue of approximately US$180 billion, but the overall profit is only US$1.9 billion, with a profit margin of only about 1.1%.
This year, the price of steel has risen from 3,000 to 4,000 yuan per ton at the beginning of the year to 5,000 to 6,000 yuan per ton.
When the contract is signed, the price has already been fixed. Party A will not compensate the shipyard due to the increase in the cost of ship steel. This money can only be borne by the shipyard itself.
It is increasingly difficult for shipyards to make profits. The industry as a whole is in a state of long-term losses. Enterprises are unable to make ends meet. Can we expect enterprises to maintain good treatment? We should be thankful that they have not laid off employees.
So what is the net profit of New Luzon Shipyard?
The answer is very good, with the overall profit margin reaching around 15%.
Of course, this profit margin is only known within the company. In the quarterly revenue report of New Luzon Shipyard, its announced profit margin was only 1.3%, which is on par with major shipyards in East Asia.
However, the profits of the New Luzon Shipyard were actually transferred to the Sea Snail Company, the Luzon Electric Company, and the construction of warships for the Luzon Navy at cost price, so it seems that its profitability is very poor.
Currently, the New Luzon Shipyard is secretly testing a new shipbuilding technology. If the test is successful, the shipbuilding cost will be reduced by 40% to 50%.
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Lu Yinsheng smiled and poured tea for a dozen technical masters.
"Masters, please don't be polite. Let's eat and talk at the same time."
As the leader among the welders, Wei Lei took a sip of oolong tea and asked, "Boss Lu, we have all seen your company's benefits. I have also learned about your shipyard. The other benefits are great, but can we discuss this family immigration?"
The technical masters present have all been working in the shipbuilding industry for a long time, and their work experience is at least three years.
In fact, they had heard of the New Luzon Shipyard, which had just emerged in recent years. Especially after Lu Yinsheng sent them a recruitment advertisement, Wei Lei and others carefully checked the relevant information of the New Luzon Shipyard.
According to the recruitment advertisement provided by Lu Yinsheng, they were hired as technical personnel and their basic salary was approximately 5,000 yuan per month.
If you are willing to accept immigration for your entire family, you can also get an internal employment contract, and the starting salary will be increased to about 8,000 yuan per month.
In addition, various other benefits are very good.
Moreover, if the whole family immigrates, the company will also arrange work, education, and retirement for their family members, which further enhances the attractiveness for people with families.
In addition, there are many people in China who have previously worked in Luzon, or immigrated there with their families, and have posted many posts and videos online.
This made Wei Lei and others not doubt the treatment of Zhiren Company.
"Masters, our company's bottom line is that the entire family of our internally hired employees must immigrate. After all, internally hired employees will be responsible for confidential positions, and we cannot give such important positions to foreign employees." Lu Yinsheng smiled and shook his head.
He also made it clear in advance that if you don't have the courage to immigrate with your family, you should just accept the outsourcing contract and don't think you can get a lot of benefits without paying any price.
Lu Yinsheng, who is responsible for recruitment in Greater China, has met all kinds of people and naturally understands some people's thoughts.
He also understands the Chinese concept of being reluctant to leave one's homeland and returning to one's roots, which makes many people not easily choose to immigrate with their whole family. If one immigrates alone, then most people will probably accept it.
These people have a very realistic idea, that is, if they can't make it abroad one day, they can still return to their hometown to live with their parents or relatives.
If the whole family immigrates, over time it means that the network of relationships and industries in the hometown will be abandoned, and one will lose a way out.
Moreover, Zhiren Company is very ruthless in its actions. Once an employee's family immigrates, not only will the company publish a list of immigrants on its official website, it will also require the employee to completely sever ties with his or her home country - that is, cancel his or her nationality of the home country.
This is obviously unacceptable to those who want to jump left or right.
Among Wei Lei and others, there are people who have such plans.
But there are no such good things in the world. To gain something, you always have to give up something.
After the meal, both parties understood each other's bottom line, and it was up to personal choice next.
Lu Yinsheng had no intention of pestering them. He would only give them one chance, and it was up to these people to choose whether they were willing to go to Luzon to work.
As for the technical workers at Samsung Mingju Shipyard, there are actually not many that Zhiren Company is interested in. There is basically no need to consider general workers and management positions, as there are plenty of such people.
Only those skilled workers are the focus of poaching this time.
In less than three days, more than a dozen skilled workers made the decision to go to Luzon to work.
There were even a few skilled workers who came from private shipyards in surrounding cities to apply for jobs. Apparently, life in the private shipyards was even more difficult, and in order to survive, the skilled workers did not mind working abroad.
