More than 91,600 Vietnamese go abroad for work in eight months

Updated: 08:25, 26/09/2019

More than 91,600 workers were sent abroad for work in the first eight months of this year, or 76.38 percent of the yearly plan, said the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs’ Department of Overseas Labour.

Over 25,000 labors are employed

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Of the figure, more than 30,700 were women.

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The top recipient markets were Japan with 45,622 workers (16,813 women), followed by Taiwan with 36,825 (12,504 women), the Republic of Korea 5,536 (392 women), Romania 1,103 (41 women), Saudi Arabia 807 (608 women), Macao 312 (171 women), and Malaysia 304 (137 women).

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Over 3,000 rural labors offered vocational training

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(BGO) – On July 2, Vice Chairman of the Bac Giang provincial People’s Committee (PPC) Le Anh Duong chaired a meeting to discuss the solution to protect the labors’ rights in the enterprises which encounter difficulties in production or hire the factory and owe the salary, social insurance and other benefits.

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(BGO) – On June 24, the Job Service Center in Bac Giang province held the first ever recruitment festival to support the enterprises on urgent demand of labor recruitment.

Source: VNA