About 3,000 workers in industrial and export processing zones in Hanoiwill board free buses to return home for the Lunar New Year (Tet)holiday, the longest and most important festival in the year.
The scheme forms part of the Hanoi Federation of Labour’s efforts tohelp workers in difficulty enjoy the holiday with their families.
Accordingly, from January 27-29 next year, or the 27th, 28 h and29th days of the twelfth lunar month, buses will pick up workers atindustrial parks and clusters in Hanoi to bring them home.
The federation has worked with businesses to register workers for free travel before December 12, 2013.
Particularly, the federation will organise a year-end party for municipal workers on January 28, 2014.
According to the federation’s Vice President Dang Thi Phuong Hoa,over the past time, the city’s trade unions at all levels has madeall-out efforts to protect the legitimate rights and interests of publicservants and workers in the capital.-VNA