Fuel shortages and the worsening insecurity, after the Covid-19 pandemic, have had terrible consequences on the textile subcontracting sector. In September 2022, the textile sector employed 53,387 people compared to 43,695 today. Within six months, from September 2022 to March 2023, the textile sector lost 9,692 jobs, according to a table shared with Le Nouvelliste by the President of the Association of Industries of Haiti (Adih), Wilhelm Lemke, on Friday, April 28, 2023. "75% of these job losses are due to the shutdown from September to November 2022, due to insecurity and 25% due to market conditions," explained Mr. Lemke. After the shutdown of the Caracol industrial park for two months due to electricity supply problems related to fuel availability, the UTE and ANARSE have looked into this matter, he said, stressing that the Prime Minister is taking charge of the SAE-A file, in order to keep the largest employer in the Caracol industrial park, which had announced significant layoffs, in the country, Wilhelm Lemke confided. SAE-A is not leaving for the moment even though the company has lost a big client who no longer wants their orders to be produced in Haiti because of repeated production shutdowns and the designation of S and H Global by Better Work for non-compliance related to an interpretation of the very ambiguous law on 3 shifts (3 x 8 law), he explained.

One of the industrial parks hit hard by the deteriorating security climate is that of Digneron, in Croix-des-Bouquets. "The situation in the Digneron free zone is not good at all. The park has been completely closed since November 2022. In terms of jobs, about 2,000 workers cannot access the park, not to mention the estimated 9,000 indirect jobs of non-biodegradable product collectors who supplied the recycling factory. As a result, unemployment has increased considerably in this area and the environment throughout the country is threatened," a source close to the Digneron free zone confided to Le Nouvelliste. "We hope that in the very near future we will be able to resume operations serenely and continue with the project which, in principle, should create 12,000 jobs," this source confided.