Minister of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs Dao Ngoc Dung (Photo: VNA) According to the minister, Vietnam is persistently implementingthe dual goals of both preventing and controlling the COVID-19 pandemic, andensuring social security and economic development. The country has completed aproject on restoring and developing the labour market, ensured social welfare,and esynchronously implemendt all policies related to the National TargetProgramme for the 2021 – 2025 period.
In 2021, the ministry focused on advising the Government topromulgate three basic groups of policies, on social support for socialprotection beneficiaries, for those who rendered services to the nation, and forworkers and employers facing difficulties due to the pandemic, which, Dung said,are unprecedented policies issued with the most urgency and fastest possibleconditions, but with the most transparent procedures.
The Government issued two resolutions to provide assistancefor pandemic-affection people, which have to date benefitted over 44 millionpeople with a total disbursed amount of 76 trillion VND (3.35 billion USD).
To ensure social welfare and safety for people,the minister stressed the need to implement the social recovery programme,especially the restoration of the labour market and people's life, at thefastest and most effective level.
It is essential to focus on building a synchronous social welfaresystem, targeting all people with two basic pillars of social insurance andhealth insurance.
Attention will be paid to housing issues for workers,supporting workers in industrial zones, especially in key economic regions,creating conditions for workers to return to the previous labour market, and generatingjobs for workers who do not want to return to their previous jobs, Dung said,stressing the importance of well implementing the sustainable poverty reductionprogramme, and striving for gender equality, women empowerment, and betterchild care./.
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