26/01/2025 08:45 AM

On December 10th, 2024, the Australian Embassy sent Official Letter No. 1217-2024 to the Ministry of Labour - Invalids and Social Affairs, announcing that in addition to the Center of Overseas Labour (COLAB), Australia has decided to select 06 Vietnamese enterprises to participate in the Program to support Vietnamese citizens to work in the agricultural sector in Australia (VLMA Program).

13/01/2025 09:16 AM

The Vietnamese communities in Sweden, Latvia, Malaysia and Thailand this weekend held celebrations on the occasion of the approaching Tết (Lunar New Year), which falls late this month.

04/11/2024 08:42 AM

(Molisa.gov.vn) - Within the framework of the official visit of Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh to the United Arab Emirates (UAE), on October 28, 2024, Minister of MOLISA Dao Ngoc Dung and UAE Minister of Human Resources Abdulrahman Abdulmannan Al-Awar had a bilateral working session to continue promoting cooperations

28/10/2024 04:41 PM

In the first 9 months of 2024, the labour force aged 15 and over was 52.5 million, an increase of 210.6 thousand compared to the same period last year and the labour force participation rate was 68.5%.

17/10/2024 09:20 AM

Protecting the rights of employees in the fight and prevention of forced labor is considered a central content in national legal policies to improve working conditions for employees. In recent years, Vietnam has consistently implemented policies to protect workers' rights and enhance labor training in order to meet current international labor standards.

09/10/2024 09:11 AM

For women, and particularly older women, access to social protection can mean the difference between a dignified life and a struggle for survival. Yet, as they reach their mid-30s, many face challenges in sustaining both their employment and health, experts have said. This has highlighted the need to be a policy to ensure the social welfare rights of middle-aged female workers.

08/10/2024 01:56 PM

Social pensions are a critical element of the right to social security for older persons whose human rights enjoyment is endangered without an adequate social pension. Older women are especially at risk. They live longer, and the unpaid care work they perform throughout their life obstructs their ability to access formal employment and therefore contributory social security or decent wages. Social and economic policies should correct this imbalance by promoting equality between women and men instead of deepening the gap.

26/09/2024 09:14 AM

The health care and protection for people constitute an important task and top priority of the Vietnamese State. Resolution 20-NQ/TW of October 25, 2017 of the 6th Plenum of the 12th Party Central Committee on “ Enhancing the protection, care and improvement of people’s health in the new situation” (Resolution 20-NQ/TW) has affirmed the goal of constantly heightening Vietnamese people’s health, stature, life span and living quality; ensuring that every citizen is entitled to health protection and care; to be equal in rights and obligations in participating in and benefiting from the health insurance and related services. With the efforts of the entire political system and the health sector as the core, the protection, care and improvement of the people’s health have obtained great results, thus greatly contributing to the national development.