The Vietnam EPS Labour Management Office and the Siheung Foreign Workers Support Centre in the Republic of Korea (RoK) have organised a gathering to provide legal consultancy for Vietnamese guest workers in Gyeonggi province and surrounding areas.
At present, nearly 40,000 Vietnamese are working in the Republic of Korea (RoK) while more than 9,000 RoK firms are operating in the Southeast Asian nation, creating stable jobs for over 700,000 workers.
A seminar was held on October 29 in Seoul, the Republic of Korea (RoK), to disseminate new regulations relating to Vietnamese workers working in the RoK under the Employment Permit System (EPS) programme.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has signed a decision on a piloting scheme which requires domestic workers to make deposits before departing to work in the Republic of Korea.
The Centre of Overseas Labour has decided to launch an online Korean language test for Vietnamese workers to be sent to the Republic of Korea (RoK) as part of the Employment Permit System (EPS) programme.
Two Vietnamese workers were killed and two others injured when a flouropolymer factory exploded in the Republic of Korea’s Eastern city of Wonju on November 10.
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