Plan to realise Vietnam-Malaysia MoU on labour cooperation approved
16/03/2023 04:15 PM
Deputy Prime Minister Tran Luu Quang has signed a decision approving the plan to realise the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on labour recruitment, employment and repatriation signed by the Vietnamese and Malaysian Governments on March 21, 2022.
The Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA) is responsible for offering instructions to enterprises operating labour services to Malaysia under contract. During the effective period of the MoU, guidance on changes related to Malaysia's foreign labour admission policies will be provided for enterprises. Regarding labour management, enterprises sending workers to Malaysia are responsible for arranging and managing workers in accordance with the signed contracts and provisions of the Law on Contract-Based Vietnamese Overseas Workers. They must also closely work with the Vietnamese Embassy in Malaysia in the management of workers.
The MoLISA must instruct the management board for workers and experts in Malaysia and enterprises how to implement the MoU. The Vietnamese side must partner with Malaysia to establish a joint working group to monitor the implementation of the MoU, hold the annual and ad hoc meetings to discuss arising issues during the implementation. The group will work since its establishment and until the MoU expires.
Vietnam, Malaysia eye stronger labor cooperation
Malaysia still remains one of the top markets for Vietnamese unskilled workers after Japan, the Republic of Korea, and Taiwan (China), head of the Vietnamese Embassy's labor management department in Malaysia Thai Phuc Thanh has said.
According to Thanh, labor cooperation between Vietnam and Malaysia has developed continuously and substantively. The two governments in 2003 signed the first cooperation agreement in sending Vietnamese labourers to Malaysia, which was re-inked in 2015, and 2022 in the framework of the official visit to Vietnam of then Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob.
Labor cooperation is always touched upon in most of the high-level meetings between the two countries, and closely linked to the interests of workers, businesses and development goals of each country. It is not only bilateral cooperation but also within the framework of ASEAN cooperation, the International Labor Organization (ILO) and trade agreements that both sides have joined.
Thanh highlighted the great benefits brought about by labor cooperation agreements to the two countries, saying that these deals have helped create jobs and incomes for hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese workers.
Official statistics show that there are over 12,300 Vietnamese laborers working in Malaysia. The total income of Vietnamese workers in Malaysia in the 2010-2020 period was estimated at about 1.5 billion USD.
He said that Malaysia is considered an "easy" labor market suitable for almost unskilled rural laborers of Vietnam. Vietnamese workers have the opportunity to work in almost all industries in Malaysia such as manufacturing, mechanical engineering, textiles, construction, services, and agriculture.
Labor cooperation has also contributed to expanding economic, trade, tourism and investment cooperation between the two countries, he went on.
To effectively exploit the potential of labor cooperation between the two countries, it is necessary to create favorable conditions for workers to travel, reside and work legally, and further develop the segment of skilled and highly-qualified labor market, Thanh said.
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