At the event, businesses raised concerns related to value-added tax refunds, increased land rental costs, reduced LNG supply, labour shortages, the issuance of construction ownership certificates, and environmental hygiene and traffic safety on roads within industrial zones.
Industrial and export processing zones in big industrial hubs have seen the majority of workers returning after Tet. Many has recorded the rate of labourers back to work at 97–98%, and even 100%,
Vietnamese Ambassador to Russia Dang Minh Khoi paid a working trip to Russia’s Vladimir oblast on November 11-12 to expand the traditional friendship with the locality that hosts numerous Vietnamese textile enterprises.
Garment and textile enterprises must develop new management methods and renew their production technologies to well adapt to new challenges like small and rapid orders as well as labour shortages, experts have said.
Lao Cai College in the northern mountainous province of Lao Cai on October 19 signed a cooperation agreement with Korea Polytechnic University IV of the Republic of Korea (RoK) to improve the former’s education and human resources quality.
The Czech Republic needs to attract foreign workers, including those from Vietnam and the Philippines, said Minister of Labour and Social Affairs Marian Jurecka.
Vietnam’s GDP growth is forecast to expand 7.5% in 2022 and 6.7% in 2023, with resilient manufacturing and a robust rebound in the service industry as the driving forces for economic recovery.
Labour shortages due to the strong rise in the number of COVID-19 infections have slowed the recovery of production activities, causing authorised agencies to consider extending overtime hours.
This year, labour shortages after the Tet (Lunar New Year) holiday are not as serious as in previous years because enterprises and localities have good policies to attract workers to return.
The Ministry of Labour of Thailand is negotiating with neighbouring countries to allow migrant workers who complete their four-year term this year to carry on working in the country for another six months.
Australia is looking to recruit Southeast Asian farm workers as the pandemic and a new free-trade deal with the UK exacerbates labour shortages in the nation’s 66 billion AUD (51 billion USD)-a-year agriculture industry, Bloomberg reported.
A few years ago hundreds of people used to descend on coffee plantations in the Central Highlands region to work as coffee pickers during the harvest season when coffee prices were high.
Malaysia’s Cabinet Committee Meeting on Foreign Workers and Illegal Immigrants has agreed on compulsory regular health screenings for foreign labourers during their employment in the country.
The Malaysian Government will lift a ban on the hiring of foreign workers in manufacturing, construction, plantation and the furniture-making industry.
