Deputy PM Truong Hoa Binh speaks at the signing ceremony.

Delivering a speech, Standing Deputy Prime Minister Truong Hoa Binh spoke highly of the proactiveness and activeness of the three parties in organising the signing ceremony. If the coordination programme’s solutions and measures are synchronously and seriously implemented, they will help make labour relations increasingly harmonious, stable and progressive. Improved labour relations will make considerable contribuitons to accelerating socio-economic development, strengthening the State management in the field of labour, stabilising the social and political environment, and enhancing enterprises’ competitiveness which in return will provide better care and protection for labourers.

Deputy PM Truong Hoa Binh requested each signatory to immediately disseminate the programme throughout their own system to make sure that the staff are well aware of the programme and work together to implement it at all levels. He also called for the programme’s contents to be realised into specific activities. It is necessary that the implementation results must be examined and assessed annually to fix and learn from any shortcomings.

The programme details 59 solutions focused on 14 major issues which, once implemented, are expected to contribute to making fundamental changes in Viet Nam’s labour relations, especially when Viet Nam is and will be demonstrating commitments in new-generation free trade agreements including the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) and the European Union – Viet Nam Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA), and compliance with international labour standards, the Labour Code 2012 which are being amended with numerous significant changes, and in the context of significant progress in labour relations./.