The Vietnam General Confederation of Labour and the Asia Foundation in Vietnam held a workshop in Hanoi on July 19 to launch a project on protecting the legitimate rights of Vietnamese guest workers.
The Mekong Delta province of Vinh Long has planned to send 3,000 guest workers to foreign markets in 2016-2020, according to the provincial Department of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs.
Representatives of the Vietnamese Embassy in Japan on March 18 visited the Seinan factory in Iwate prefecture to inspect working and living conditions of Vietnamese guest workers.
Up to 15,605 Vietnamese workers contracted to work abroad in the first two months of this year, according to the Department of Overseas Labour of the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs.
The Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA) has been prompting measures to call on Vietnamese guest workers in the Republic of Korea (RoK) to go home on schedule, an official said.
More than 100,000 female guest workers in factories in the southern provinces of Binh Duong and Dong Nai have better awareness of reproductive health care and gender equality.
The ASEAN Community will create a single market with freely moving capital, goods, services, investment and skilled labour, bringing about both opportunities and challenges for Vietnamese workers.
Two Vietnamese citizens who got lost in Australia’s Sydney airport and missed their flight to Vanuatu were supported by the Vietnamese Consulate General to arrive in their target destination safely.
Vietnam and Malaysia inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on the employment of workers in a bid to boost the number of Vietnamese guest workers in Malaysia, reported the Ha Noi Moi newspaper.
Indonesian authorities have estimated that the country will start
accepting foreign workers in large numbers by 2030 for lower-level
labour markets that are no longer filled by domestic workers.
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