04/01/2022 09:20 AM

Vietnam has sketched out specific tasks and roadmaps to implement the Abolition of Forced Labour Convention (C105) of the International Labour Organisation (ILO), under a plan approved recently.

14/01/2022 06:30 AM

More than 2.9 million people will benefit from a 7.4% increase in pensions starting from January 2022, according to the Vietnam Social Security.

14/01/2022 03:15 PM

The sending of Vietnamese workers abroad, to work under contracts has suffered negative effects due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In the context of “safe and flexible adaptation to the pandemic”, the Law on Vietnamese Workers Working Abroad Under Contracts, which is effective from 2022, will contribute to better protecting the rights of this group of workers.

15/01/2022 01:35 PM

Vietnam’s Human Development Index (HDI) advanced to 0.706 in 2020 from 0.682 in 2016, enabling the country to join the High Human Development group, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO).

15/01/2022 09:30 AM

The Vietnamese government has proposed spending 6.6 trillion VND (290.7 million USD) to support housing rent for workers, as part of a 53.15 trillion VND (2.34 billion USD) package for social security and job creation.

31/12/2021 09:45 AM

The U.S., in partnership with COVAX, delivered 2,873,520 additional life-saving doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine to Viet Nam.

10/01/2022 09:05 AM

An emergency relief project funded by the US Agency for International Development (USAID) was launched by the Vietnam Red Cross Society in Thua Thien-Hue province on January 10, targeting people affected by the COVID-19 pandemic in Vietnam's central region.

10/01/2022 08:05 AM

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused the labour market to face a serious crisis, with unemployment and underemployment rates rising to high levels. Labour supply and demand sees imbalance in most areas and industries while average monthly income of workers has decreased sharply compared to periods before the pandemic.