Director of the MoLISA’s Department of Overseas Labour Tong Hai Nam said that
Vietnam now has 506 companies licensed to bring labourers to work abroad and
over 26,000 guest works who cannot return home despite their expired work
contracts due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The department has directed relevant units to keep a close watch on the
pandemic's developments, and actively coordinate with Vietnam’s representative
agencies abroad and partners and employers using labourers to ensure safety and
legitimate interests of Vietnamese workers while waiting to come back home.
It has also asked businesses to calculate the number of workers who need to be
repatriated to report to authorised agencies for consideration of organising
flights to repatriating them as soon as possible and in accordance with the
country’s conditions, said Nam.
According to the official, the department re-signed an agreement on labour
cooperation with Thailand; has negotiated another deal with Israel; and been
implementing the agreements signed with the Republic of Korea (RoK) and Japan.
It has also made market research and assessed the pilot phase of bringing
workers to work in some European countries such as Romania and Poland to promote
the development, expansion and stabilisation of the labour market, and
intensified support for localities in continuing to pilot sending seasonal
workers to the RoK.
Last year, due to movement restrictions applied by many countries over the
world, the number of Vietnamese labourers going abroad to work was only 78,641,
equivalent to only 60.5 percent of the plan assigned by the Government.
Source: VNA