Vietnam’s labour market is forecast to experience temporary shortages in several regions following the 2025 Lunar New Year holiday (Tet), driven by workers relocating or switching jobs, according to the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MOLISA).

VOV.VN - The Department of Overseas Labour under the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA) and the local authorities of Mie Prefecture of Japan have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on sending and accepting workers to the locality from Vietnam.

Deputy Minister of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs Nguyen Van Hoi has stated that the ministry issued a directive requesting reports on the distribution of rice and proposals for rice aid during the 2025 Lunar New Year (Tet) and the lean season as an effort to ensure social welfare during the Tet festival, and ensure no one is left behind.

VOV.VN - A national online conference on eradicating makeshift and dilapidated houses will be held on January 6, 2025, to evaluate and work out solutions to eliminate substandard housing across the country, according to the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MOLISA).

The multidimensional poverty rate in Vietnam has fallen to below 1% this year, the Ministry of Labour - Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA) reported at its year-end review conference held in Hanoi on December 27.

VOV.VN - More than 700,000 Vietnamese workers are currently employed abroad under contract, earning stable incomes and sending significant remittances worth approximately US$3.5–4 billion per year to the homeland, said the Ministry of Labour, Invalids, and Social Affairs (MOLISA).

Vietnam serves as an ideal model for other nations to learn from in ensuring employees’ rights and promoting employers’ benefits, said Chief of Better Work Programme Roopa Nair during a meeting with Deputy Minister of Labour, Invalids, and Social Affairs Le Van Thanh in Hanoi on December 4.

Vietnam sent 130,640 workers abroad, including 41.039 females, in the first 10 months of this year, surpassing the yearly target by 4%, according to the Department of Overseas Labour under the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA).

In a move to combat the plague of child labour, the Ministry of Information and Communications held a conference in Hanoi on September 19, rallying the press and stakeholders to amplify prevention and reduction efforts.

The Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA) will conduct a wage survey at 3,400 enterprises with 6,800 labourers to serve as a foundation for the adjustment of the regional minimum wage in 2025.