Provide the "point-to-point" service for the employees to return to work.
The outbreak of the Novel Coronavirus was coincident with the Chinese Spring Festival, so the rural migrant workers had difficulties in returning work after the holiday, which caused the shortage of workforce in some of the SMEs. The Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security launched the “Service Platform of Rural Migrant Workers Returning to Work,” providing the “point to point” service. SMEs can register their employees returning demands, and the government will orderly arrange their returning in groups. The governmentinitiated campaign aims to provide the migrant workers a safer and smoother trip amid the epidemic. To facilitate the migrant workers' return trips, multiple “point-to point” transportation services are provided after different provincial governments established a good coordination and communication mechanism.
Promote online job matching and remote recruitment.
It is necessary to get accurate access to the workforce demand of SMEs and enhance the online recruitment services through vigorously promoting remote interviews and the direct matching between enterprises and the workforce. And the governments at all levels would regulate the charges of human resources service and crack down on the malicious attempt to force up the labor prices. For hard-hit enterprises with the shortage of workforce or willing to engage in the prevention and control work, human resource service agencies are encouraged to provide services with a lowered fee or for free. On March 20th, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security launched the “10 million in 100 days”online recruitment campaign, which provides the one-stop recruitment service for enterprises through a unified and multi-stakeholder network.
Establish an employee-sharing mechanism.
“Sharing economy” has been a popular business model in China for the past few years, as enterprises have explored shared bikes, cars, and portable batteries. But now, some are sharing their employees. COVID-19 has caused a lot of sectors, such as catering, tourism, and many other services, to suffer, but they still have to pay their employees who are staying at home with no work to do. However, some businesses, especially online businesses, have more work than their employees can handle. In Beijing, an employee-sharing platform, named “HELO Employee-Sharing Platform” has been launched by FESCO (Foreign Enterprises Service Corporation) under the support of Beijing Municipal Human Resources and Social Security Bureau. The platform allocates employees from companies with a surplus of the workforce, to ones where there is an immediate need. And the platform will provide the matching opportunities for the registered companies or individuals and the complete set of payment, labor, and insurance solutions as well. At present, 1615 enterprises have confirmed the need for nearly 50,000 people, and about 5,000 people have signed up to be transferred to other enterprises for temporary duty.