Workers nationwide get free Tet treats
Disadvantaged workers at industrial zones nationwide are treated to entertainment activities and gifts from their companies and authorities to ease their loneliness when they are not able to reunite with families on the lunar New Year festival (Tet).
The workers were given free tickets to the park, partied with municipal officials and each participant also received a gift worth VND600,000 (US$26.5).
 |
Doan Thanh Phu, a worker from the southern province of Kien Giang who has been through many Tet holidays away from home, said events like this are meaningful to people like him, adding that assistance from the local authorities has encouraged workers to devote more energies to their work in the year ahead.
The trade union organisation in the Mekong Delta province of Long An also held similar events for poor workers. The provincial Labour Union said local public agencies and companies have so far channeled nearly VND30 billion (US$1.3 million) into Tet bonuses for workers, of which VND3 billion (US$132,810) were spent on 7,000 free bus tickets.
Meanwhile, in the northern province of Hai Duong, companies and individuals have donated over VND11 billion (US$486,970) to support the local needy during Tet, with more than 20,000 gifts reaching the disadvantaged community.
