Ha Nam works to remove labour difficulties for FDI businesses

The People’s Committee of the northern province of Ha Nam held a meeting with foreign direct investment (FDI) businesses in the locality to discuss labour issues on February 15.
Ha Nam works to remove labour difficulties for FDI businesses ảnh 1Workers at Dong Van Industrial Park in Ha Nam province (Photo: hanam.gov.vn)
 
Ha Nam (VNA) – The People’sCommittee of the northern province of Ha Nam held a meeting with foreign directinvestment (FDI) businesses in the locality to discuss labour issues onFebruary 15. 

FDI enterprises have faced numerous difficulties such as lack ofhigh-quality employees and limited housings and pickup buses for workers, saidrepresentatives of FDI businesses at the event.

They suggested the locality provide pickup buses while speeding up the constructionof accommodations for workers. 

They also asked the province to take measures to lure workers from otherlocalities as well as run information on employee recruitment on mass media andtrain more high-quality labourers.

Acquiring FDI businesses’ opinions, Vice Chairman of the provincial People’sCommittee Vu Dai Thang said that the province will help bring recruitmentinformation to colleges, universities and vocational schools as well ascommunes where IPs are based.

It will maintain buses to pick up workers in the locality while consideringopening more bus routes linking to Hanoi and neighbouring provinces.

The province plans to build houses, kindergartens and publicfacilities to serve workers’ needs, he said, adding that it will continue implementinga project to train 1,000 skilled workers for FDI businesses and coordinate witheducational institutes to ensure labour supply for the companies. 
Meanwhile, the businesses are asked to create afriendly and fair working environment while paying more attention to thematerial and spiritual lives of their workers.

According to Tran Xuan Duong, head of the Ha Nam IPs management board, 153 FDIbusinesses operating in local industrial parks are employing more than 37,500labourers. The firms want to recruit over 5,700 workers this year.-VNA
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