During its stay, the delegation, led by Luong Phan Cu, Vice Chairman of the NA Committee for Social Affairs, studied labour policies, especially for women, and people with disabilities in an effort to finalise the Labour Code (revised) and the Law for the disabled. The delegation also worked with the Democratic Party of Japan’s Committee for Gender Equality towards the implementation of laws on gender equality and the prevention of domestic violence.

The delegation made a fact-finding tour of businesses employing a large number of Vietnamese workers and visited the Vietnamese Embassy and the Vietnamese labour management board in Japan.

The visit was part of a cooperation programme between the NA and the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) through the Policy Implementation Assistance Project (PIAP), and a 2010 NA foreign exchange programme.