Under the MOLISA’s Overseas Labor Management Department, some Vietnamese companies are sending workers to more than 10 European countries. Depending on the needs of the host country, workers will have different jobs and salaries. Currently, Romania is the country that receives the most Vietnamese workers with over 4,000 people, 90% of whom work in the construction and industrial sectors. The lowest salary for general workers is $650 per month, and for those with skills, $800-1,000.

In which, Taiwan market leads with 6,694 workers (2,057 female workers), followed by Japan with 5,543 (2,524 female workers), Korea: 4,394 (548 female workers), China: 313 (0 female workers), Singapore: 88 (0 female workers), Romania: 41 (9 female workers s) and other markets.

In the first 5 months of 2024, the total number of Vietnamese workers working abroad is 65,852 (19,409 female workers) reaching 52.68% of the 2024 plan.

In which, Japan market: 35,208 (13,364 female workers), Taiwan: 21,602 (5,068 female workers), Korea: 5,209 (548 female workers), China: 848 (0 female workers), Singapore: 481 (0 female workers), Romania: 361 (37 female workers), Thailand: 295 (0 female workers), Macao: 199 (71 female workers), Saudi Arabia: 245 workers.

According to the Department of Overseas Labour (under MoLISA), this year's target is the deployment of 125,000 Vietnamese workers under contract abroad, with focus on high-income and stable markets.

on March 19, the Japanese Embassy in Vietnam in collaboration with the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) held a workshop in Hanoi, highlighting Vietnam's and Japan’s efforts to promote labour mobility between the two nations.

At the event, the Japanese side introduced Japan’s policy on migrant worker recruitment and a technical project being implemented by JICA and competent agencies of Vietnam to improve the transparency of the programme to dispatching labourers overseas.
According to First Secretary of the Japanese Embassy Ishii Chikahisa, Japan has great demand for workers in the fields of food and beverage production, construction, manufacturing, electronic information, automobile maintenance, and shipbuilding industry, among others.

He said Vietnamese workers have an important role to play in the Japanese economy, adding some 500,000 Vietnamese are working in Japan, increasing eight folds in ten years.
Although Vietnamese labourers are known for their industriousness, they need to join technical intern training to improve their language competence and vocational skills, he added.
Nagata Yuki from Japan’s department of immigration and residency management said that the Japanese government has submitted a new policy to receive foreign workers, including those from Vietnam, to the diet for approval.

When the policy takes effect, it will prioritise ensuring foreign workers’ rights and creating promotion opportunities for them, so that they will feel secure when living in the country, he said.

Meanwhile, JICA Vietnam Deputy Chief Kubo Yoshitomo said the new policy is significant to Japan, which is getting greyer, as it will help the country ease the labour shortage pressure for national development.

On 16/10/2023, Prime Minister Phạm Minh Chính meet Gilbert F. Houngbo, Director-General of the International Labour Organization (ILO). PM Chính stated that the country is building and developing based on three pillars: socialist rule of law state, democratic socialist orientation, and market-oriented socialist direction.

Việt Nam is also building an independent and self-reliant economy that is actively integrating deeply, efficiently, and comprehensively into the international community.

In this process, Việt Nam places people at the centre, making them the subject, goal, motivation, and resource of the development, he said, adding that Việt Nam does not trade progress, social justice, and the environment for mere economic growth.

Việt Nam is committed to innovation towards balancing and harmonising economic and social development, increasing labour productivity, expanding and strengthening the social security system, reforming the labour market system and labour law, and ensuring the legitimate rights and interests of workers, PM Chính told the guest.

Việt Nam has a relatively large labour market with 52.3 million workers, and the quality of employees is getting better, the economy basically ensures sufficient employment for workers.

Việt Nam has made significant progress in labour and trade union issues, with the legal system on labour and social security being continuously improved and the management of the labour market being increasingly effective.
ILO Director-General Gilbert F. Houngbo hoped and believed that Việt Nam would continue to develop to have more resources to spend on social security;  to support Việt Nam in all labour and employment-related issues;