Chapter 614 The Birth of the Volume King (Fourth update, please subscribe)
Blue Ocean!
What is a blue ocean?
Everyone has their own opinions and choices.
While thousands of American employees like Huck are promoting Nanyang products and expanding the channels for Nanyang products across the United States on behalf of companies such as Global Trading.
In Nanyang's industrial zones, there are hundreds of thousands of factories producing a variety of goods. For these business owners, large and small, what many of them focus on is not the blue ocean, but production. After all, Nanyang is now facing a large market of hundreds of millions of people in Europe and the United States.
So, working overtime in the factory has long been a common thing. Although it is already 7 o'clock in the evening, the workers in the factory with lights on are still working overtime.
In the factory yard, Sun Dechang was pacing back and forth and smoking a cigarette. Occasionally, he would look at the factory building aside.
Today is his second month of working in this factory. When he first started working, he was led by the production supervisor to walk around the production workshop. Although Sun Dechang was a reporter in the past, His eyes widened when he saw the production equipment in the workshop. What he saw in his factory were all the latest electric sewing machines, not the outdated old pedal machines, and the clothing production process was also split. Each process has a corresponding worker to make up for the technical shortcomings - each worker is only responsible for one process.
This production method is said to have been specially researched. It is not only faster in production, but also easier to update the process. However, Sun Dechang does not know much about production matters. He only serves as an assistant to help the factory. The manager handles various non-production matters in the factory.
After one month in the factory, Sun Dechang was somewhat familiar with it. The night he received his first month's salary, he had insomnia.
48.5 yuan!
He has never received such a generous salary.
A salary of more than 600 yuan a year!
"Dad, our family can buy a car later..."
That night, my wife took the initiative to get into my arms and said in a tone full of expectation.
Cars!
Own your own car!
Sun Dechang never even thought about it in the past, but that night, his wife had all kinds of imagination, mostly about the life scenes of the male and female protagonists in the movie.
What now?
Just last week, he went to the Wuling Motors dealer to have a look. The place was full of people looking at cars. He was not the only one dreaming about cars.
And this also made Sun Dechang work harder, and even the people there changed unknowingly.
In the factory, Sun Dechang also learned a lot about factory production, deepening his understanding of factory production and workers' welfare. For example, a considerable part of the pension insurance and medical insurance of Nanyang workers It is a burden on the enterprise. What the factory directors and others talk about is nothing more than officials being stupidly charitable and giving free money to the workers. As for providing three meals a day, providing accommodation, and even giving out work clothes, etc., these benefits are not as good as It is better to say that it is provided by the enterprise on its own initiative than because of legal provisions.
This is not enough. In January this year, the Ministry of Labor also issued a special decree prohibiting overtime work after eight o'clock. Otherwise, it is illegal. If an enterprise is caught working overtime, it will be severely fined.
The difference in many places is that those laws are not just written on paper, they are also strictly implemented. Even investigating and punishing illegal enterprises is regarded as the political achievement of the labor department. In this case Naturally, everyone will not work overtime.
Take the factory he works for, for example. It specializes in the production of children's clothing. It finally received a large order from the United States, but due to production capacity, the factory could not complete it at all. In fact, if possible, it would be just to add one more It’s just an hourly shift.
One hour.
It’s just an hour!
After taking the last puff, he threw away the cigarette butt in his hand, stamped it out, then clapped his hands again, and Sun Dechang glanced at the office. As he walked towards the office, there were more than a dozen cigarette butts scattered on the ground behind him. As soon as he entered the office, he saw his boss who was settling accounts.
“Boss Fang, I have a suggestion, I don’t know whether to say it or not,”
Walking to the opposite side of the boss, Sun Dechang said.
“Say.”
“Our factory has always provided workers with three meals a day, right?” Fang Dekun looked at Sun Dechang and said with a smile.
“Our factory does not have “trainees”, so we only have two meals, lunch and dinner.”
In fact, Fang Dekun is also applying for a "trainee", but this requires solving problems such as dormitories first, and there are also restrictions on factory operations, profits, etc. Wait, it will be almost done next year.
“Yes, yes, two meals,”
Sun Dechang said. He had smoked five or six cigarettes outside before. After hesitating for a long time, he finally walked up to the boss.
"Mr. Sun, do you have any suggestions?"
Fang Dekun said with a smile. Sun Dechang's arrival saved him a lot of trouble. His factory is a small factory and can He was very satisfied with hiring a gentleman who graduated from college.
"Well, I noticed that the lunch break in our factory is one hour, plus half an hour for dinner, so there is almost an hour and a half a day, and the workers don't have to work."
"Well, "
Nodding slightly, Fang Dekun said.
“This is almost the case in factories all over Nanyang. Nanyang is different from Tangshan. In Tangshan, you can work from the beginning of the year to the end of the year, from morning to night. No one asks, but what about Nanyang... Well, their laws are not written on paper. They work five days a week here. If they say five days, they are five days. As for eight o'clock in the evening, that is outrageous..."
When it comes to working hours in Nanyang, Fang Dekun also looked very helpless. When he was in Tangshan, he also ran a factory. It was normal to work more than ten hours a day, but it didn't make sense in Nanyang.
"Yes, yes, "885" is Nanyang. Even if the workers want to work overtime, you are not allowed to work overtime."
Sun Dechang mentioned "885" because it was a statement put forward in the newspaper a few months ago. Go to work at 8 o'clock and get off work at 8 o'clock every day, working 5 days a week. Although it seems to work 60 hours a week, let alone compared with the sweatshops of this era, it is just compared with those in another world who work from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. Compared to factories that work every day, this is already very humane. And at 8pm, there are still three hours that are counted as overtime.
"Isn't that right? A while ago, a factory worked overtime and was reported. As a result, it was fined 20,000 yuan and even had to pay three times the overtime pay."
Tips Fang Dekun simply hated Nanyang's crackdown on overtime.
"Nanyang is good at everything, but this is unsatisfactory. Mr. Sun, you have been in the factory for more than a month. Look, as long as overtime is allowed, who is not willing to work overtime?"< br>
"No, boss, who thinks money hurts your hands, so..."
Sun Dechang thought for a while and said.
“So, I have a suggestion, I don’t know whether to say it or not.”
“You say.”
“That’s it, what do I think? We have a lunch break. The time is too long, and you need to take an hour's rest. If you change the lunch break to half an hour, and then move dinner to after get off work, then the factory can work for one hour every day, and the workers can I believe everyone would be willing to earn more money.”
Sun Dechang's suggestion made Boss Fang stunned, and then he continued.
“As for the amount of overtime pay, I think overtime pay should be calculated based on the length of overtime work. If an hour is added every day, the overtime pay will be increased by 20 cents. In this way, after one month, per capita Increased income by four to five yuan, almost one-fifth of the income, which also reflects the principle of more work, more gain!”
Listening to his suggestion, Fang Dekun couldn’t help but start to make calculations in his mind! got up.
Can this be done?
(End of this chapter)