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.
More than 670 people had a chance to find jobs at the first job fair of the year in Hanoi on Feb 25, said the Hanoi Job Service Centre under the Department of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs.
Thousands of logistics entrepreneurs are struggling with a serious
shortage of employees due to a rapid increase of services demands, the
Vietnam Logistics Institute (VNLI) has said.
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