VOV.VN-The Vietnam General Confederation of Labour’s Institute for Workers and Trade Unions (IWTU) came together with the Netherlands Trade Union Confederation to hold a webinar on December 28 in Hanoi to look at the impacts of the pandemic on footwear and garment workers and trade union activities.

VOV.VN - Businesses in Ho Chi Minh City are in dire need of roughly 30,000 additional workers to fulfil orders placed by partners ahead of the traditional Lunar New Year, known locally as Tet.

A Vietnamese delegation led by Nguyen Thi Hoang Van, Vice Chairwoman of the Party Central Committee’s Commission for External Relations, attended an extraordinary teleconference of the International Meeting of Communist and Workers’ Parties (IMCWP) held on December 10-11.

VOV.VN - The Vietnamese Ministry of Health has granted approval to the inoculation of booster and additional COVID-19 vaccine shots, with priority given to those over 50 and frontline workers.

Providing in-person training for people who want to work abroad will help meet the demand for quality workers in labour import markets, experts have said.

VOV.VN - Vietnam sent a total of 43,584 workers abroad during the initial 10 months of the year, representing 48.42% of the yearly plan, according to the Department of Overseas Labour under the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs.

The number of Vietnamese workers entering the Republic of Korea (RoK) is expected to rise, reaching 183 at the end of this month, according to the Management Board of Vietnamese Laborers in RoK.

The Vietnam Social Security (VSS) has so far given over VND28 trillion (US$1.23 billion) from the unemployment insurance fund to nearly 11.78 million COVID-19-affected workers.

VOV.VN - Health Minister Nguyen Thanh Long has emphasised the necessity of raising public awareness regarding COVID-19 prevention measures, amid complicated and unpredictable developments, with many localities remaining apathetic about countermeasures.

As of November 5, more than VND21.851 trillion (US$US965.5 million) of the almost VND22.29 trillion, equivalent to 98% of the approved amount, in financial support has been delivered to over 9.1 million out of nearly 9.4 million pandemic-hit workers applying for help.