Hangzhou strives for a "good start": frequent efforts to ensure employment of enterprises

The scene of the 2024 New Year Hangzhou Human Resources Exchange Conference. Photo courtesy of Hangzhou Employment Management Service Center

　　China News Service, Hangzhou, February 20 (Wang Yifei, Qian Chenfei) On the 20th, the 2024 New Year Hangzhou Human Resources Exchange Conference was held in Hangzhou, attracting more than 2,600 job seekers to apply, and 480 people initially reached employment intentions.

　　This is one of the representative measures taken by Hangzhou to increase the employment security of enterprises. In the context of various places rushing to get off to a good start in the first quarter, Hangzhou, whose GDP just reached the "2 trillion yuan" mark last year, now regards doing a good job in "people" as an important focus, and in doing a good job in "retention" Frequent actions have been taken on the guarantee services of "workers, repatriation and recruitment".

　　As early as the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, a special return-to-work bus from Sichuan Province arrived in Hangzhou. This was also the first special return-to-work bus from Hangzhou to arrive in the city. It is reported that under the Hangzhou-Guangyuan East and West Labor Service Cooperation Mechanism, the human resources and social security departments of Hangzhou and Guangyuan work closely together to actively connect enterprises and migrant workers, conduct a thorough research on return-to-work needs in advance, and provide "point-to-point, one-stop" chartered and special buses. Services such as sending workers to enterprises not only help local migrant workers find employment, but also help Hangzhou enterprises quickly resume post-holiday production.

The job fair held in Tianzhu County. Photo courtesy of Hangzhou Employment Management Service Center

　　In terms of "inter-provincial recruitment", Hangzhou has made great efforts this year. For example, early on the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, the Hangzhou Municipal Human Resources and Social Security Bureau organized 19 companies to form the first outbound recruitment team and set off for Liping and Tianzhu in Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou. At noon on the same day, the second recruitment team set off for the Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture in western Hunan, Hunan, and 10 companies participated in the recruitment.

　　On the first day after the Spring Festival, the third and fourth recruitment teams went to Guangyuan, Sichuan and Luoyang, Henan to recruit workers across provinces with more than 6,000 positions respectively. He Yilong, the administrative specialist of a precision mechanical and electrical enterprise who went to other provinces for recruitment for the first time, said, "The company needs to recruit more than 200 front-line technical workers and middle-level managers of the company. As long as they are talents, we have demand. The general salary for general workers is 6,000 yuan to 8,000 yuan. If you do a good job, your monthly salary can be tens of thousands, not to mention the management."

On February 19, the first chartered flight to return to work arrived in Hangzhou this year. Photo courtesy of Hangzhou Employment Management Service Center

　　The relevant person in charge of the Hangzhou Employment Management Service Center introduced that in order to ensure enterprise employment services, promote labor transfer employment, and help the economy get off to a good start in the first quarter, Hangzhou began planning in December last year and officially launched it in January this year. A labor cooperation group recruitment operation has been launched, with plans to recruit workers in more than 30 prefectures and cities in 10 provinces. This operation will last until mid-March. So far, the Hangzhou Municipal Human Resources and Social Security Department has dispatched 6 recruitment teams, and 130 sub-enterprises have provided nearly 15,000 jobs to various places.

　　In addition, in order to help enterprises resume work and production and go all out to boost the economy, Hangzhou also gave out two "big gift packages" to enterprises during the Spring Festival, including subsidies for chartered cars to return to work and subsidies for job expansion for a good start.

　　In terms of enterprise chartered bus return-to-work subsidies, eligible enterprises rent buses to organize cross-provincial “point-to-point” employees with non-Hangzhou household registration to return to work from February 10 to February 24, and each bus has no less than 20 employees. For passengers, Hangzhou will provide a subsidy of 50% of the chartered vehicle cost, with a maximum subsidy of 200,000 yuan per company.

　　The city's job expansion subsidy is aimed at local manufacturing companies. If the number of people participating in unemployment insurance in Hangzhou at the end of the first quarter of this year has increased significantly compared with the end of last year, the subsidies will be given for each net increase of one person in the number of unemployment insurance participants. A 1,000 yuan subsidy for job expansion, with a maximum limit of 300,000 yuan per company. (over)