Workers in Vietnam will enjoy a five-day break from April 30 to May 4 for the Reunification Day (April 30) and International Workers’ Day (May 1) this year.

VOV.VN - Finland will recruit Vietnamese workers, starting from 2025, under a newly signed memorandum of understanding (MoU) on labour cooperation between the two countries.

The average monthly income of Vietnamese workers surged by 8.6 % annually to VND7.7 million (approximately US$304) in 2024, according to a press conference held by the General Statistics Office (GSO) in Hanoi on January 6.

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).

VOV.VN - Six Vietnamese firms have been officially selected to send labourers to work in Australia in the agricultural sector under the Vietnam Labour Mobility Arrangement (VLMA).

Regarding the case of a Japanese company failing to pay wages to Vietnamese workers, the Labour Management Board of the Vietnamese Embassy in Japan has taken action to assist workers in solving the issue.

As of November 30, more than 17,000 Vietnamese workers had been working legally in Malaysia, according to the Malaysian Ministry of Human Resources.

The Japanese Government is committed to creating happier and better living conditions for Vietnamese workers to help them contribute more effectively to Japanese society and the economy, according to Japanese Ambassador to Vietnam Naoki Ito.

VOV.VN - Japan is one of Vietnam’s most important and long-term partners, National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man told Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba during their meeting in Tokyo on December 5.

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).