VOV.VN - The Immigration Management Agency of the Republic of Korea (RoK) has announced plans to offer a 50-day automatic stay extension period for foreign migrant workers in accordance with the Employment Permit System (EPS) programme, reported the Department of Overseas Labour.

Workers, especially in industrial zones, are encountering dual challenges amid the COVID-19 pandemic: keeping their job in uncertain times while continuing to demand that their rights and entitlements remain protected, the deputy head of cooperation at the EU Delegation to Vietnam said.

A documentary entitled “Len thanh pho” (Making our place), featuring the lives of young migrant female workers in Hanoi, won the Best Next Gen award at the Better Cities Film Festival 2020 in the US, according to the Vietnamese Women’s Museum.

VOV.VN - Health workers in Ho Chi Minh City have identified and quarantined a total of 235 people who either came into direct or indirect contact with two positive novel coronavirus (COVID-19) patients in the southern city.

VOV.VN - A female Vietnamese guestworker of Ca Mau province has recently died of COVID-19 in Saudi Arabia, confirmed a local official.

VOV.VN - Romenio Pereira, the secretary for international relations of the Brazilian Workers Party (PT), paid a courtesy visit to the Vietnamese Ambassador to Brazil Pham Thi Kim Hoa on November 4 at the Vietnam Embassy in Brazil.

VOV.VN -Despite some labour export markets opening up to receive Vietnamese workers following the containment of the COVID-19 pandemic, local labour export enterprises find it difficult to recruit workers.

VOV.VN - More than 350 Vietnamese citizens stranded in the United States and Japan due to COVID-19 have been brought home safely by national flag carrier Vietnam Airlines.

VOV.VN - Nearly 350 Vietnamese citizens left stranded in Russia due to the COVID-19 pandemic have been safely repatriated by national flag carrier Vietnam Airlines.

VOV.VN - A seminar was held on October 29 in Seoul, the Republic of Korea (RoK), to disseminate new regulations relating to Vietnamese guest workers employed in the RoK under the Employment Permit System (EPS) programme.