IT has the highest demand growth rate for recruitment, rising 50 percent and 45 percent from pre-pandemic levels in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, respectively, according to a recent survey by recruitment company Navigos.

People wait at a checkpoint in Ho Chi Minh City to leave for other southern provinces on Oct. 1, 2021.

The figures show a high demand for labor amid major shortages being reported in southern manufacturing facilities as workers leave major industrial localities like HCMC and Binh Duong for their hometowns, their cash depleted.

More than 87 percent of jobseekers said they were affected by the pandemic.

"We can see that the 4th Covid pandemic has a more serious impact on workers than all previous outbreaks combined," the survey said.

Four out of 10 employees have either been let go or quit after seeing their incomes cut and have not found a new job.

Around 42 percent of employers say they are prioritizing cutting fresh graduates and inexperienced staff.

More than half of respondents have been tightening their spending.

Nearly 52 percent of employees will switch to a new job when the Covid-19 situation is controlled.

VND30 trillion from unemployment insurance fund to be given to pandemic-hit labourers, employers

National Assembly (NA) Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue has signed a resolution on the provision of support to labourers and employers affected by Covid-19 using the unemployment insurance fund.

Over 3,000 labours employed at job transaction sessions

(BGO) – More than 3,000 labours have been employed to work at businesses via 52 job transaction sessions launched by the Bac Giang provincial Center of Job Service since early this year.

Labours at Bac Giang’s industrial parks sharply increase

(BGO) – Because most of the production businesses have resumed operation, the number of labours in the industrial parks in Bac Giang province have sharply increased.

About 422,800 labours, business households and enterprises affected by Covid-19 pandemic receive aid

(BGO) – The statistic from the Department of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (DoLISA) in Bac Giang province showed that the province decided to support nearly 422,800 labours, business households and enterprises as of September 13 with total approved amount of about 506 billion VND (22.2 million USD).

Lang Giang creates job to more than 3,600 labours

(BGO) – Amid many difficulties caused by Covid-19 pandemic, the competent agencies in Lang Giang district (Bac Giang province) has created many jobs to local labours for the first nine months of this year.

Source: VnExpress