Employee crunch hits world’s prime medical glove maker as demand spikes

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Employee crunch hits world’s prime medical glove maker as demand spikes

By Liz Lee


By Liz Lee

KUALA LUMPUR, April 1 (Reuters)The world’s greatest maker of medical gloves is grappling with a severe scarcity of staff because it tries to satisfy an enormous surge in demand as nations similar to america run out of non-public protecting gear as a result of coronavirus outbreak.

Malaysia’s High Glove Corp Bhd TPGC.KL, which makes one out of each 5 gloves on the earth, must urgently recruit as much as 700 extra staff as orders up to now few weeks have doubled, the corporate instructed Reuters on Wednesday.

It has already stated it could not have the ability to meet the entire elevated demand, and its wrestle to recruit staff may make the duty of shortly including manufacturing strains much more tough.

The hiring drive has been hampered by Malaysia’s month-long curbs on journey as nicely difficulties in flying in staff from nations similar to Nepal, the corporate’s essential supply of labour.

A comparatively industrialised nation of 32 million, Malaysia closely depends on labour from South Asian nations.

“We have been already experiencing a scarcity of staff at first of the yr, which has now turn out to be extra severe following the implementation of Malaysia’s motion management order,” govt chairman Lim Wee Chai stated.

“In the meanwhile, as a result of surge in demand, we require unskilled staff, particularly to hurry up the packing operate and high quality assurance operate, in order that the prepared output might be shipped out shortly to our prospects.”

Regardless of the coronavirus restrictions that may final till mid-April, the corporate managed to recruit some 300 individuals final month and has engaged staffing corporations to search for staff extra aggressively. It’s now attempting to rent extra Malaysians and is conducting interviews over WhatsApp video calls.

High Glove has 18,000 staff and 44 factories in three nations with the capability to make 73.eight billion gloves a yr, which it needs to extend given the worldwide scarcity.

An emergency stockpile of medical gear maintained by the U.S. authorities has almost run out of protecting gear together with masks, respirators, gloves, robes and face shields, Reuters reported on Tuesday citing officers.

Malaysia, the world’s greatest glove producer, has the best variety of coronavirus infections in Southeast Asia with 2,908 circumstances.

(Reporting by Liz Lee)

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