January 13, 2012
Chinese workers in southern Vietnam Lax regulations are allowing more than 31,330 foreigners to work illegally in Vietnam, labor officials said at a conference this week. Officials from the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs suggested the government quickly establish an Employment Law to better manage foreign workers, Tien Phong (Vanguard) newspaper said. The illegal number [...]
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December 30, 2011
Garment workers are among those receiving low Tet, New Year bonuses this year Vietnam’s highest Tet and calendar New Year bonus for an individual this year as of December 27 was paid by a foreign-invested firm in Ho Chi Minh City at more than US$52,300. The company, which is not named, paid the country’s largest [...]
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December 19, 2011
Job seekers loof for opportunities at a job vacancy notice board in Vietnam. Young people are finding it harder than other age groups to get jobs in Vietnam , and this does not augur well for their future, experts say. The 2011-2020 Vietnam Employment Strategy report estimates the unemployment rate among youths aged 15-24 at [...]
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December 16, 2011
Gymnast Phan Thi Ha Thanh will be nominated for the Labor Award, third class, for some glorious performances at last month’s SEA Games in Indonesia Six athletes will be nominated for the Labor Award, third class, for their outstanding performances at the Southeast Asian Games in Indonesia last month, a sports official has said. Lam [...]
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December 16, 2011
Vietnam has sent more than 81,000 laborers overseas as of November, Vietnam News Agency quoted an official from the labor ministry as saying on Tuesday. Despite difficulties, Vietnam is likely to achieve the target of sending 87,000 laborers overseas this year, said Le Van Thanh, deputy chief of the ministry’s Overseas Labor Management. According [...]
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November 26, 2011
Vietnam lawmakers on Tuesday opposed draft adjustments to the current labor law, saying that an increase in regulated overtime is not what laborers want. The proposal being discussed at the National Assembly aims to increase the maximum annual overtime from 200 hours to 360 hours. Cu Thi Hau, a lawmaker from the northern province of Hung [...]
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November 19, 2011
Workers in Ho Chi Minh City struggle with unstable jobs, abuse at work, and bosses who flee to avoid paying employees Workers from Miso Vina Company stay at the company yard around the clock awaiting payment after the South Korean director fled to avoid paying their salaries Binh burns leaves and sticks at night [...]
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November 9, 2011
A group of Vietnamese workers prepare to depart for South Korea. Vietnam’s labor authorities have temporarily banned people from 23 wards from applying to work in South Korea after many workers from these wards quit jobs or overstayed in South Korea after their contract expired. These wards and communes, most of which are in northern [...]
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November 5, 2011
South Korea will recruit Vietnamese guest workers back after a four-month hiatus, the Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs said on November 3. According to the ministry, South Korea’s Employment Permit System (EPS) office is set to conduct the Korean language test for Vietnamese workers on December 17 and 18. Nguyen Ngoc [...]
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October 30, 2011
A Qantas plane is seen grounded among smaller aircrafts at Perth international airport October 29, 2011. Qantas Airways sparred with unions at a second labor tribunal on Sunday after Australia’s prime minister called for an end to the industrial dispute that grounded the airline’s entire fleet, stranding tens of thousands of passengers around the world. [...]
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