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ILO pledges to help Vietnam improve labour, social welfare policies

The International Labour Organisation (ILO) will continue to assist Vietnam in improving its labour and social welfare policies and dealing with emerging challenges as the country is in the process of transition to a market economy and international integration, ILO Deputy Director-General Deborah Greenfield has said.
ILO pledges to help Vietnam improve labour, social welfare policies ảnh 1Politburo member and Head of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee’s Commission for Mass Mobilisation Truong Thi Mai (R) meets with ILO Deputy Director-General Deborah Greenfield in Hanoi on August 27 (Photo: VNA)

Hanoi (VNA) – The International Labour Organisation (ILO) will continue to assistVietnam in improving its labour and social welfare policies and dealing withemerging challenges as the country is in the process of transition to a marketeconomy and international integration, ILO Deputy Director-General DeborahGreenfield has said.

Greenfield,who is on a visit to Vietnam where she attended the ILO’s centenary, made thecommitment during a meeting with Politburo member and Head of the CommunistParty of Vietnam Central Committee (CPVCC)’s Commission for Mass MobilisationTruong Thi Mai in Hanoi on August 27.

TheILO Deputy Director-General spoke highly of Vietnam’s labour and socialreforms, especially in gender equality, social security and building harmonious,stable and progressive labour relations.

Shealso commended the Vietnamese National Assembly’s approval of the ILO Convention98 on the Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining at its recent session.

Mai,who is also Secretary of the CPVCC, congratulated the ILO on its 100th founding anniversary and praised the achievements the organisation has madeover the past century for the goal of building peace on the basis of social equality.

TheParty official affirmed that Vietnam is committed to accompanying the ILO forthe noble goal which was also President Ho Chi Minh’s thought indicated in documentsand decrees during the first days of the Vietnamese government right after thecountry regained independence in 1945.

Thethought has been inherited and developed in accordance with each development stageof the country for the target of putting people in the centre; promoting andprotecting legitimate rights and benefits of employees and employers; buildinga social security system; protecting vulnerable groups to left no one behind;setting up harmonious, stable and progressive labour relations based on therespect for the right to dialogue and bargaining of relevant sides, sheadded.-VNA
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