Vietnamese nurses attend a Japanese language course before going to Japan to work as care workers. (Photo: VNA) After labourmarkets like Japan, the Republic of Korea and Taiwan (China) announcedtheir plans on relaxing restrictions on the entry of foreign migrant workersfrom November, businesses involved in labour export resumed training activitiesand procedures for visa applications to quickly send workers abroad.
TranAnh Quang Thanh, Director of PITSCO Training and Manpower DevelopmentLimited Company’s Ho Chi Minh City Branch, told NguoiLao Dong (Labourer) newspaper that his branch will apply for visare-issuance for 90 of 150 candidates who could not go to Japan due to theimpact of the pandemic.
“Wewill give priority to these candidates going to Japan this year to helpthem settle down soon because they have waited so long," he said.
Thecurrent difficulty is training workers. Despite positive results inproviding online training, in-person training is still better, he said.
“Thetransfer of knowledge, language, culture and professional skillsis more effective if trainees directly interact with teachers,”he said.
Thein-person training will strictly comply with pandemic prevention and controlmeasures, including vaccination, social distancing and 5K message.
Mosttrainees in his company have received two COVID-19 vaccine doses.
More focus on training workersis needed as many labour import markets want to recruit a largenumber of trained and skilled employees.
“Qualifiedworkers can get more opportunities to work abroad with a good salary,”Thanh said.
Theresumption of in-person training is necessary, said Trinh Vu, Director ofTokyo VNJ Human Resource Development Co., Ltd, in Tan Binh district.
“Vaccinationsare the top priority for reopening in-person training andmeeting the entry and exit policies of many countries,” he said.
Labourexporters expect all of their candidates to be fully vaccinated soon, hesaid.
Withan abundant supply of vaccines, the city has created favourableconditions for all migrant workers who have returned from other localities toreceive vaccines, he said.
Inthe last two years, many labour export enterprises had to shut down.
Sincethe city gradually reopened its economy at the beginning of October, hiscompany has made every effort to adapt to the new situation.
“Itis convenient for us because the labour demand in labourimport makerts is still very high,” Vu said.
However,the government needs to pay more attention to meeting workers’ demandfor finding suitable jobs abroad, and take advantage of gooddiplomatic relations with other countries and territories to expandlabour-export markets, he added./.
VNA
