The program to recruit skilled workers in 2022-23 by the Center for Overseas Labor, the German Federal Employment Agency and the German Chamber of Industry and Commerce, formalized on Thursday, eyes college and university graduates with at least two years' experience in information technology, electronic engineering, food processing, and restaurant and hotel management.

Job seekers (R) at an employment service center in Hanoi, July 2022.

The number of workers to be recruited has not been announced.

The program is funded by the German Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, and so recruits do not have to pay fees.

It will also cover the cost of German training for the workers and visa and other administrative fees.

Germany is plagued by a labor shortage due to its aging population.

According to the Institute of Economic Research in Germany, the country will face a shortage of more than five million workers by 2030.

Since 2015 Vietnam has sent nearly 1,000 nurses to work in that country.

Vietnam aims to send 100,000 workers to other countries each year for them to acquire knowledge and experience that can be put to use for its own development when they return.

Bac Giang helds regular talkshow, ensures benefit for labour

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763 labours register to Korean exam under EPS

(BGO) – The Department of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (DoLISA) in Bac Giang province received labours’ registration to Korean examination under Employment Permist System (EPS) in second period in 2022 from October 17 – 23 at Second Facility of provincial Job Service Center (JSC) in Xuong Giang street (Bac Giang city).

Bac Giang recovers labour export in post Covid-19 period

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Bac Giang exerts highest effort to care for labour

(BGO) – Amid negative impacts by Covid-19 pandemic to every aspect of life, especially the outbreak at industrial parks, the northern province of Bac Giang launched many synchronous measures to protect the health of people, particularly the labour. Thus, the province successfully realized “dual goals” of effective disease prevention and control together with socio-economic development.

Source: VnExpress