After the sluggish May, June, and July, Wenzhou shoe factory officially entered the busiest peak season of the year. Almost every year, the peak season begins in August. The peak season is also the hope of shoe factory workers. As the saying goes, "the year's plan is in spring", but for shoe factory workers, the year's plan is in the peak season!
The off-season in the shoe factory is often unbearable. The wages of factories with jobs will plummet, even to 30% of the original. The factories that have no work to do will directly take long holidays, which can be as short as half a month, and as long as two or three months. Most shoe factories in Wenzhou do not have holidays during the off-season, but production will be intermittent, and workers will basically be paid two to three thousand yuan. Many people, especially the whole package of employees in the sewing workshop, some will take time off and go home to rest during the off-season.
It can be said that in order to make money in a shoe factory, one must rely on the peak season. The off-season can only earn living expenses, and some people even make ends meet during the off-season. Wenzhou shoe factory basically pays by piece rate, no additional benefits, more work, more benefits. Although the employees in the molding workshop have a basic minimum wage, when the off-season comes, many factories will directly lay off employees or let some people take holidays, so that they do not have to pay them the minimum wage, and will not allow these employees to have nothing to do and still receive the minimum guarantee. salary.
The peak season is the year's hope for the entire contractor of the shoe factory. If the ideal income is not earned during the peak season, then this year will be a failure. The peak season is only a short period of less than five months, and the entire contractor of the shoe factory depends on these five months to make money. In the second phase of the shoe capital, the third phase of the shoe capital, and the Metropolitan Women’s Shoe Park, starting from August, the entire package of employees will start at 6 o'clock in the morning. In the middle, except eating and going to the toilet, all the time is in intensive work. Work until about eleven o'clock in the night, work 16-18 hours a day, wishing to use one day as two days. The wages of the entire package group are generally above 10,000, and 15,000 is also the norm. People who have never entered a shoe factory may not believe that there is a salary of 15,000 in a shoe factory, but it does exist. Although many people can get a salary of 15,000, it is not something that anyone can get if they want. It is absolutely impossible for a person who has worked in a shoe factory for many years to get such a high salary. If you are not as proficient in the process and operating methods of the shoes, it is impossible to get a salary of 15,000 yuan! As for the molding workshop, there are also 15,000 wages, but they are rare. Only a few people have them. Most of them are between 5,000 and 9,000. The wages of tens of thousands are not much. General workers may still have wages around 4,000.