The Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA) has set a target to send 110,000 labourers to work abroad in 2018, with 40 percent being women. The Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA) has set a target to send 110,000 labourers to work abroad in 2018. (Photo: nld.com.vn) The ministry will try to maintain traditional labour markets like the Republic of Korea, Japan and Taiwan (China). This year, it will focus on increasing quality of the workers to ensure competitiveness and incomes. MOLISA Deputy Minister Doan Mau Dieu said that the Department of Overseas Labour should study to make recommendations for the amendment of the law on Vietnamese workers working overseas under contracts while renewing inspection work. Solutions should be deployed to strictly manage and protect the interests of Vietnamese labourers working in foreign countries, he noted. Last year, over 134,700 workers went to work abroad, including 53,340 female workers. The figure exceeded the annual plan set for 2017 by 28.3 percent. This is also the fourth consecutive year that the number of workers sent overseas has surpassed the 100,000 benchmark. Taiwan led in hiring Vietnamese guest workers with 67,000 people in 2017, nearly half of the total number of Vietnamese workers overseas. As of the end of 2017, the number of Vietnamese workers working in Taiwan stood at 206,184, with 87 percent employed in industrial manufacturing and 13 percent in social services. Japan was the second largest market for Vietnamese guest workers, receiving 54,504 workers in… [Read full story]
As the labor market is expected to recover this year and demand for overseas guest workers is increasing, Vietnam aims to send 85,000 workers abroad in 2010, the Department for Worker Overseas Management said January 25. Trainees take part in a construction course for workers seeking jobs abroad. (Filed photo) To reach this target, an increase of 10,000 workers over last year the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs will continue focusing on key markets such as China, Taiwan (China), Malaysia, Japan and Korea. The Ministry will also expand the domestic labor market into the Middle East where a large…... [read more]
Labor ministry plans to send skilled workers abroad for guest workThuy Dung HANOI – The Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs (MOLISA) is drawing up a plan to send high-skilled workers abroad for guest work, especially aging countries. The plan will need an estimated VND1.3 trillion (about US$57.2 million) to support labor export activities and hold refresher courses for locally trained workers who do not meet the labor standards of importing nations. The plan will be implemented in the 2018-2020 period with a vision towards 2025. According to MOLISA, about 500,000 Vietnamese are employed in foreign countries at the…... [read more]
Vietnam will send guest workers to Libya again this year following the resolution of its political crisis. The return has the approval of Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung, who assigned the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MOLISA) and Ministry of Foreign Affairs to work out a detailed plan for sending guest workers to Libya. Deputy director of MOLISA's Department of overseas labourers Dao Cong Hai, who has just return from a business trip to Libya, said the socio-political situation there had returned to normal. Vietnam's business partners were again working in Libya and called on Vietnamese guest workers…... [read more]
Vietnam plans each year to send 100,000 to 120,000 labourers to other countries by 2020, according to Ministry of Labour, Invalids, and Social Affairs. Vietnam plans to send 100,000 to 120,000 labourers to other countries each year through 2020. Source www.molisa.gov.vn Of this number, 80 per cent will be trained.In last year’s first 11 months, 118,859 labourers, including 44,702 females, worked abroad, according to Tống Hải Nam, deputy head of the Department of Overseas Labour under the ministry.Last year was the fourth consecutive year the number of labourers working abroad exceeds 100,000, Nam said.Vietnam has averaged 87,500 labourers working abroad…... [read more]
This year will see the recovery of the labour market as the demand for guest workers is increasing, according to the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA). By December 2009, nearly 75,000 Vietnamese workers had been recruited to work overseas on long-term labour contracts, fulfilling 83 percent of the country’s yearly target. In an interview granted to VOV, the Deputy Minister of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs, Nguyen Thanh Hoa said that last year Vietnam failed to meet its set target due to numerous difficulties caused by the global economic crisis and the national economic slowdown. In addition,…... [read more]
