Vietnam’s labour export sees signs of recovery in the remaining months of the year as domestic labour supply companies have secured recruitment orders from major labour importers after experiencing a standstill as a result of the global economic recession.

The Transport Investment Cooperation and Import-Export Corporation (Tracimexco) of the Ministry of Transportation, has been asked to recruit 60 trainees for Japan ’s Maruai Group Co., Ltd. from now to October.

For Tracimexco, the order, which was also accompanied by commitments of full-time work and a minimum monthly pay of 700 USD per person, is the largest it has received for a year.

Tracimexco has sent over 15,000 Vietnamese labourers to the Middle East, Western European countries, the Republic of Korea, Japan, Libya and the United Arab Emirates since 1980.

Other labour supply companies-- Suleco and Sovilaco--have been contracted to recruit trainees for Japan, which employed 2,678 Vietnamese workers in the past six months, a figure that places Japan as the third largest importer of Vietnamese workers.

Taiwan , which has recruited 8,752 Vietnamese workers in the past six months making it the biggest labour importer in the period, has placed an order with the Emis Labour Supply Company in Ho Chi Minh City to recruit 80 workers for the remaining months of this year.

In the meantime, the Isalco Labour Supply Company said it is currently enrolling 50 labourers for Malaysia, a market that hired 1,237 Vietnamese workers in the past six months. The Malaysian partners have pledged to treat Vietnamese workers the same as they do their Malaysian peers.

According to the Ministry of Labour, War Invalids and Social Affairs, Vietnam sent 31,000 workers abroad in the past six months, a drop of 28 percent against the corresponding period last year./.