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Measures sought to build standardised recruitment process of labourers to work in Japan

Representatives from the Government, international organisations, trade associations, employment service suppliers of Vietnam and Japan gathered at a forum held in Hanoi on April 4 to discuss measures to improve the recruitment of workers to international standards.
Measures sought to build standardised recruitment process of labourers to work in Japan ảnh 1Vietnamese workers departing to work abroad (Source: vneconomy.vn)
Hanoi (VNA) – Representatives fromthe Government, international organisations, trade associations, employmentservice suppliers of Vietnam and Japan gathered at a forum held in Hanoi on April 5 to discuss measures to improve the recruitment of workers tointernational standards.

Speaking at the event, Shishido Kenichi, SeniorAdvisor to the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) President, highlightedthe Vietnam-Japan sound relations over the past 50 years in all fields and at alllevels.

Each year, about 100,000 Vietnamese young interns and workers arrive in Japan, makingpositive contributions to the economic development of Japan and Vietnam, hesaid.

Shishido Kenichi cited a recent JICA survey showing that over 70% of Vietnameselabourers in Japan are satisfied with the life and work there. Meanwhile, JICArecorded a large number of Vietnamese youngsters interested in studying andworking in Japan to learn experience and technologies from Japan.

He said that the Vietnamese and Japanese governments have worked closelytogether to seek solutions to arising problems during the recruitment ofVietnamese workers for working in Japan.

He said the forum is a chance for the twosides to discuss how to improve the working conditions and support to practitioners,thus making more contributions to the labour exchange between the twocountries, heading to the establishment of a recruitment process towardsinternational standards.

Measures sought to build standardised recruitment process of labourers to work in Japan ảnh 2An overview of the meeting (Photo: nhandan.vn)
Emphasising that over the past 10 years, Japan has been one of the topdestinations for Vietnamese migrant workers, Ingrid Christensen, Director ofthe International Labour Organisation (ILO) Vietnam, said that Vietnamese workers creates the largest guest worker community in Japan, accounting for 25.4% of thetotal 1.82 million foreign workers in the country.

Christensen said that the process of recruiting workers to work abroad should becarried out with fairness, ensuring good working conditions for workers and aneffective complaint mechanism.

A recent research by the General StatisticsOffice of Vietnam with the support of the ILO showed that each worker must pay up to 192 million VND (about 8,000 USD) to be recruited to work in Japan for the first time, which is againstinternational standards on labour migration, increasing the risk of forced labourand the vulnerability of workers.

Pham Viet Huong, Vice Director of the Department of Overseas Labour Management underthe Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs, said that Vietnam isworking hard to complete the legal system regarding Vietnamese guest workers undercontract, with the supplementation of regulations for better protection of therights of Vietnamese people working abroad under contract./.
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