labourers

Working hard to win employees’ loyalty

December 17, 2012 | 16:19

Vu Quang Hung, deputy director of the Hanoi Power Corporation, analyses how to encourage employee loyalty and abate labour turnover at Vietnamese businesses.

Safety net for workers left in the lurch

September 13, 2012 | 17:11

Relevant government agencies are moving to support labourers losing jobs at enterprises with employers who have absconded.

Labour exports not plain sailing

July 20, 2012 | 18:34

Labour export’s dark side is under the spotlight. Around 90 per cent of export labourers returning home face debt problems and high-paid labour export markets are afraid of absconders.

Transport workers all at sea

July 18, 2012 | 15:12

Economic vulnerabilities have thrown transport sector workers into dire straits.

Working hard to answer foreign labour questions

September 01, 2011 | 09:38

The spotlight has fallen on vast numbers of unlicensed foreign labourers working across the country. The National Assembly’s Social Affairs Committee deputy chairman Dang Nhu Loi tells VIR how the problem can be addressed.

Rules on foreign staff tightened

July 04, 2011 | 10:01

The government is clamping down on foreign contractors using foreign labourers in Vietnam-based projects.

Japan woos contract labourers

June 28, 2011 | 17:05

Vietnamese workers going to Japan rose sharply in the past months.

Vinh Phuc human resources pitch

June 20, 2011 | 08:35

‘Training people to serve the cause of industrialisation and modernisation is the focus of the province’

Safety net for Libya workers

March 09, 2011 | 16:30

Besides having bank loans rescheduled, repatriate workers from strife-torn Libya would enjoy further government support to stabilise their lives, said Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA) Overseas Labour Management Department deputy head Dao Cong Hai.

Labour exports in fine working order

February 18, 2011 | 09:58

Vietnam expects labour export numbers in 2011 to beat 2010’s figures with positive news in early 2011.

Protecting the workforce

January 25, 2011 | 16:25

Some businesses have been accused of laying off labourers and employing new ones just to evade paying health and social insurance premiums. Vietnam Investment Review discussed the matter with the Minister of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs, Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan