Order slump deprives workers of stable textile-garment jobs

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Workers at a garment factory in the southern Bac Lieu Province, February 2022. Photo by VnExpress/Le Tuyet

 

Vietnam's textile-garment firms have seen orders keep dropping starting from the second quarter until now and they are having workers work in rotation.

 

The industry's exports have been "bizarre" this year, significantly impacting many companies, said Tran Thi Tuyet Mai, deputy general secretary of the Vietnam Textile and Apparel Association (VITAS).

 

At the beginning of the year, businesses received a lot of orders and even faced worker shortages; but since the second quarter, impacts of Russia-Ukraine war have led to rising fuel prices and people in many countries changing their consumption habits, causing a sharp decline in purchasing power for clothes and fashion items, she said at a conference in HCMC Thursday.

 

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