Few migrant workers in the informal sector have proper understanding about their rights in host localities and how to exercise those rights, particularly those relating to social welfare.
About 32,000 individuals invested 810 million SDG in risk-free Singapore Savings Bonds (SSBs) over the last six months, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) announced.
The Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs has acknowledged that while the quality of vocational training has improved, there remain areas of inefficiencies.
Voluntary social insurance participants will enjoy more benefits including government subsidies of up to 30 percent of premiums, more choices in payment terms, and no age limit on participants.
Workers under certain circumstances could opt to receive a social
insurance lump sum, rather than waiting until retirement age to collect
insurance payments in the form of monthly pensions, as stated in a
resolution ratified by National Assembly deputies on June 22.
The Government’s proposal to adjust Article 60 of the 2014 Social
Insurance Law has received mixed opinions from both workers and National
Assembly (NA) deputies.
Legislators discussed draft amendments to the Law on the Organisation of
the People’s Procuracy in a plenary meeting in Hanoi on October 27 as
part of the ongoing National Assembly’s eighth session.
Minister of Labour, War Invalids and Social Affairs Pham Thi Hai
Chuyen said that aside from raising the retirement age, there have been
many solutions proposed to maintain the balance of revenues and expenses
of the social insurance fund.
Being trained and certified of financial background or experienced
in the financial sector is seen as a catalyst for women to achieve
boardroom positions in big corporations, heard a seminar on women and
leadership recently held by the Association of Chartered Certified
Accountants (ACCA) in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City.
Contract employees and foreigners authorised to work in Vietnam would be
included in the Government's social insurance programme, under a new
draft revision to the Law on Social Insurance, compiled by the Ministry
of of Labour, Invalid and Social Affairs.
UN Resident Coordinator in Vietnam Pratibha Mehta has highly valued
Vietnam’s achievements in protecting and ensuring human rights over
the past years.
The National Assembly's Social Affairs Committee deputy chairman Bui Si
Loi spoke with the Thoi bao Ngan hang (Banking Times) about the
Government's guarantee for the social insurance fund.
Professors, associate professors and doctorate degree holders who
work at tertiary education institutions can continue working up to ten
years after their retirement age.
The International Labour Organisation (ILO) in conjunction with the
Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA) on August
22 announced an important report, indicating the need for a
comprehensive reform in Vietnam’s pension scheme.
The Labour Code (revised), the Law on Prevention and Control of
Tobacco Harms, regulations regarding marriage involving foreign elements
are among legal documents that took effect as of May.
The number of women in leadership positions in political organisations,
including the National Assembly and Government, has yet to reach its
full potential, said Deputy Head of the Vietnam Women’s Union Nguyen Thi
Thu Ha.
Thailand’s Office of the Civil Service Commission (OCSC) has revealed
plans to push the retirement age to 60 or 62 for public officials, in
order to help cope with problems relating to Thailand’s aging
population.
Nguyen Thi Quoc Te from the Supreme
People's Court said that the earlier retirement age for women combined
with maternity leave gave them less chance to earn promotion.
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XIII National Congress of Communist Party of Vietnam
