19/07/2018 05:05 PM

According to the General Statistics Office (Ministry of Planning and Investment), there are great numbers of labourers in the informal sector, including those working in agriculture and rural areas, free labourers, and labourers in household economy and small production and trading activities. They have significantly contributed to national food security, and the production of goods for domestic consumption and export, while generating jobs for other labourers. They have contributed about 30 percent of the national GDP.

18/07/2018 10:35 AM

The Ministry of Public Health has issued Circular 15/2018/TT-BYT regulating the uniform prices of insurance-covered medical check-up and treatment services among hospitals across the country and guiding the calculation of prices for medical services in some specific cases.

03/07/2018 04:30 PM

The 2018 APIC – Japan World Pension Funds and Social Security Systems Summit was held at Tokyo, Japan from 20 – 21 June, 2018. The conference outcomes are considered as initial keys to open a wide range of potential opportunities for international investors, especially in terms of social security fund investment of Asian nations

29/06/2018 10:02 AM

Viet Nam Social Security (VSS) is a State Agency responsible for implementing social insurance and health insurance policies nation-wide; collecting and paying the unemployment insurance benefits; managing the Social Insurance (SI), Health Insurance (HI) and Unemployment Insurance (UI) funds; and inspecting SI, HI, UI contribution.

14/06/2018 09:48 AM

Vietnamese labourers working abroad still have to pay high expenses and face numerous risks, heard a conference announcing the 2018 Code of Conduct and monitoring tools of the Vietnam Association of Manpower Supply (VAMAS) on April 24 in Hanoi.

08/06/2018 02:01 PM

Vietnamese labourers who want to work abroad have to pay higher fees than their counterparts from other countries, said Chang-Hee Lee, Director of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) Country Office for Vietnam.

08/06/2018 01:54 PM

Joining hands to address the difficulties Currently, Hanoi has 23,246 people joining voluntary social insurance, while the city has more than 1.572 million labourer in the informal sector. At the same time, the city has nearly 2 million people not covered by health insurance, most of who are in rural areas. The expansion of voluntary social insurance and household health insurance is facing many difficulties, requiring not only efforts of the social insurance sector but also coordination of other agencies, sectors and organisations.

08/06/2018 10:53 AM

The Ministry of Health organised a meeting in Hanoi on April 24 to collect opinions on a circular replacing Circular 37/2015/TTLT-BYT-BTC, which stipulates prices medical services covered by health insurance in hospitals of the same levels nationwide.