Improving qualifications of guest workers and developing foreign labour markets that suit Vietnamese labourers' standards and skills have been considered as key tasks in 2024 in order to stepping up the sending of labourers to work abroad.

VOV.VN - Speaker of the National Assembly of Bulgaria Rosen Dimitrov Jeliazkov has emphasized that in the coming time, the two sides will supplement the legal basis on labour between the two countries to create a basis for Bulgaria to welcome Vietnamese workers.

The Department of Overseas Labour under the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs announced on January 4 that it has sent a document urging businesses which had dispatched workers and apprentices to the Japanese prefectures of Ishikawa (especially the Noto Peninsula), Toyama, Niigata, and Fukui to promptly take protective measures for them in earthquake-affected areas.

VOV.VN - The quality of the Vietnamese labour market has failed to drastically improve with a large portion of informal workers, although the employed population has increased, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO).

VOV.VN - Vietnam sent approximately 155,000 workers abroad this year, meeting 129% of the target set for the year and representing an increase of 8.55% from a year earlier, according to an initial report unveiled by the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MOLISA).

VOV.VN - While most people are snug at home wrapped under warm blankets, many workers must go out and earn a living amid the chilly winter weather conditions which have gripped Hanoi over recent times.

VOV.VN - Vietnam sent more than 146,000 guest workers abroad over the past 11 months, including 74,000 to Japan, according to statistics released by the Department of Overseas Labor under the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs.

VOV.VN - The 13th National Trade Union Congress elected a new executive committee and its leader at the closing ceremony in Hanoi on December 3.

VOV.VN - Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong has asked the Vietnam General Confederation of Labour (VGCL) to develop long-term social welfare programmes for employees to better cater to their needs and to ensure they feel comfortable at work.

VOV.VN - Vietnam and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) signed a memorandum of understanding on human resources cooperation in Dubai on December 1.