A total of 2.4 million jobs have been lost in Vietnam in the first two quarters this year, the biggest reduction for the period in the past decade, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Deputy Minister of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs Le Van Thanh.

VOV.VN - Bamboo Airways on September 15 brought home close to 380 Vietnamese citizens who had been left stranded in the Republic of Korea (RoK) as a result of the impact of the COVID-19 epidemic.

VOV.VN - A Vietnamese Minister on September 10 introduced practical measures the government has taken to cushion the impact of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic at the G20 Labour and Employment Ministers’ Meeting.

Labourers from the informal sector who have been seriously affected by COVID-19 pandemic will benefit from the second support package proposed by the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA).

As many as 93,720 foreign labourers have been working in Vietnam as of August 2020, according to the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA).

VOV.VN - General Secretary of the Labour Party of Mexico (PT) Alberto Anaya Gutierrez has expressed his admiration for the Communist Party and people of Vietnam, largely due to their previous struggles for national independence.

VOV.VN - Park Hang-seo, chief coach of the national football squad, has been granted Vietnam’s Labour Order, becoming the first coach in the history of Vietnamese football to reeive the honor.

Chairwoman of the National Assembly (NA) Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan on August 19 spoke highly of the contributions and achievements of incumbent NA leaders that have helped improve the quality and efficiency of the legislature’s activities.

The General Statistics Office (GSO) has urged designing specific support packages for disadvantaged labour groups in the context of 57.3 percent of labourers from 15 years old and above seeing their income reduce under the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact.

Vietnam’s labour market has bounced back quickly after the social distancing period, according to Minister of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs Dao Ngoc Dung, who also expects it to return to the first-quarter level in the July-September period.