Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam speaks at the meeting. (Photo: VNA) Addressingthe conference, Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam praised the labour sector’sachievements last year amid COVID-19, particularly in poverty reduction,ensuring social welfare, employment, and vocational training.
Despitethe impact of the pandemic, more than 1.3 million jobs were created in 2020,meeting 83.3 percent of the goal set for the year and bringing the total numbergenerated in 2016-2020 to nearly 8 million. Sixteen million people, or 33.2 percentof people of working age, joined the social insurance network last year.
TheDeputy PM asked the ministry to focus on improving its performance in implementingsocial policies targeting revolutionary contributors, developing a diverse andmultilayer social welfare network, and enhancing human resources via increasingtraining quality, among other matters.
Herequested that good care be given to those in need as well as people who rendered services tothe country’s revolution at the upcoming Lunar New Year (Tet) holiday.
Thesector revealed targets for 2021 at the conference, including developing aflexible and adaptive labour market that can meet requirements in post-pandemicrecovery, and boosting the quality of vocational education, with a focus onbuilding a high-quality workforce.
Thebuilding of harmonious, stable, and progressive workplace relations is alsoimportant, especially with the appearance of new issues such as salary policies,extended retirement age, and those relating to workplace relations developmentas stipulated in the revised Labour Code, which took effect on January 1./.
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