Addressing a teleconference in Hanoi on December 25, the top legislator praised the sector for its achievements in the year, especially in building institutions, improving the quality of vocational training and developing the labour market.

At the teleconference.

She underlined efforts by the sector in promoting poverty reduction, saying that relevant policies, which focus on creating sustainable livelihoods, have helped improve the living conditions of the people.

The NA Chairwoman stressed the need for the sector to pay attention to the institutional improvement work, especially in reforming salary and social insurance polices.

The Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA) must review policies on social security, specially those on creating more jobs and increasing incomes for labourers, and better the quality of vocational training to meet the market demand amid the 4th industrial revolution, the NA Chairwoman said.

She asked the ministry to make more efforts in promoting gender equality, towards narrowing the gender gap, as well as pay heed to supervising the implementation of relevant policies and law.

A long-term and harmonious strategy should be developed to ensure social security, she said.

Speaking at the conference, Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam requested the MoLISA, the Vietnam Fatherland Front and relevant ministries and sectors, to work closely to do well tasks in 2020, which will focus on completing the draft Law on Vietnamese workers working overseas under contract, and issuing documents detailing and guiding the implementation of the revised Labour Code, and the Ordinance on Preferential Treatment of People with Meritorious Services.

The deputy PM also underlined the necessity to enhance science research, innovation and startups in education and training institutions, foster cooperation between education establishments and enterprises, expand vocational training in rural areas, and synchronously promote the generation of domestic jobs and the sending of labourers to work abroad.

About 62,000 foreign labourers join compulsory social insurance in Vietnam

After 10 months since compulsory social insurance collection applied, as many as 62,000 foreign labourers have joined social insurance in Vietnam.

Bac Giang speeds up roadmap for universal health insurance

(BGO) – With flexible methods of attracting participants, every year, the number of people joining health insurance increases rapidly, with benefits of medical examination and treatment guaranteed. To speed up the roadmap for universal health insurance in 2020, the Social Security Agency of Bac Giang province focuses on assessing people’s health insurance participation to make timely adjustments in line with the reality.

More than 17 million students have health insurance cards

More than 17 million schoolchildren and students nationwide have joined health insurance so far, accounting for 95.3 percent of the total, according to the Vietnam Social Security (VSS).

Bac Giang is sole province nationwide exceeding development plan of compulsory social insurance

(BGO) – Bac Giang province has nearly 255,500 participants of compulsory social insurance (CSI) as of August 2019, accounting for 100.4 percent of the assigned target in 2019. Now there are about 14.6 million people joining the CSI across the nation, making up 95.1 percent of the set plan.

Provincial leader urges to timely detect enterprises in debt of labors’ salary and social insurance to protect their rights

(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.

Source: VNA