Illustrative image (Source: VNA) Due to COVID-19 impacts, last year, Vietnam completed only50 percent of its yearly target in labour export with 45,058 workers sentabroad. Thanks to wide-scale vaccination against COVID-19 and thechanges in pandemic control strategies towards adapting to the pandemic, manycountries have opened their doors for foreign workers, including those fromVietnam.
Specifically, Taiwan resumed the reception of foreignlabourers from February, while the Republic of Korea (RoK) announced that itneed 59,000 foreign workers in 2022, and Japan has loosened entry regulationsto raise the number of arrivals from 3,500 to 5,000 daily from March.
As of March 15, 2022, Vietnam had sent 2,026 labourersabroad to work under labour contracts, including 451 to Japan, 363 toSingapore, 325 to the Republic of Korea, 248 to Taiwan and 99 to Hungary.
In Europe, nine countries – Poland, Lithuania, Hungary,Bulgaria, Cyprus Republic, Turkey, Slovakia, Belarus and Portugal - haveaccepted workers from Vietnam. Many labour suppliers are recruiting up tothousands of labourers for jobs overseas. However, labourers are still reluctant to go overseas due to concern over the pandemic, resulting in limited supply.
The Department of Overseas Labour held that the target oflabour export for this year is reachable. This year, it will focus on reaching new labour cooperation contracts for markets whereworkers are paid with high and stable wages, while conducting training forworkers and preparing necessary conditions for them to meet the requirements ofthe host markets.
Besides traditional marketssuch as Japan, the RoK and Taiwan, the department will try to make inroad into promising marketslike Germany, Russia, Australia and Israel. Currently, Germany is in need ofabout 40,000 health workers as well as a large number of workers for theautomobile and hospitality sectors.
Nguyen Gia Liem, Deputy Director of the Department of OverseasLabour said that the department will coordinate closely with Vietnamesediplomatic agencies abroad and authorised agencies of host countries of Vietnamese labourers to keepa close eye on the the situation of the labourers to ensure their legitimate rights and interests./.
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