Vietnam, Switzerland discuss pushing labour collaboration after COVID-19
An online conference took place between Vietnam’s Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA) and Switzerland’s Federal Department of Economic Affairs, Education and Research (EAER) on June 23, discussing ways to enhance the sides’ post-COVID-19 labour cooperation.
MoLISA Deputy Minister Nguyen Thi Ha speaks at the event (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – An online conference took placebetween Vietnam’s Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA) andSwitzerland’s Federal Department of Economic Affairs, Education and Research(EAER) on June 23, discussing ways to enhance the sides’ post-COVID-19 labourcooperation.
Speaking at the event, MoLISA Deputy Minister Nguyen Thi Hastressed that the pandemic’s impacts on the economy, labour, and employmentvary among countries. Amid increasing global integration, seeking collaborationand sharing information and experiences will help countries overcome thehardship together, she added.
The official informed the conference that the most vulnerablegroups are informal, non-contract, low-income, young, senior, female, andmigrant workers.
She shared data from the International Labour Organisation(ILO) that estimated more than 22 million Vietnamese labourers face high employmentrisks due to COVID-19.
The Vietnamese Government has taken measures to control the epidemicwhile maintaining production, and ensuring social stability, she went on,adding that in May, more than 5,000 firms resumed operation and the number ofnewly established ones was 36.1 percent higher than that of the previous month.
Ha hoped the Swiss side and the ILO will work with Vietnamand the MOLISA in realizing their goals related to job security and goodpreparation of human resources and labour policy to welcome investmentopportunities and strengthen the local workforce market.
Participants from both ministries exchanged information onhelping workers get back to work. They said restructuring the labour force shouldfocus on training and re-training to create and maintain jobs after thepandemic.
At the conference, the two sides signed a memorandum ofunderstanding, which reiterated their commitments to ILO goals and labourcooperation. The pact is set to be implemented via high-level dialogues,experts’ meetings, joint conferences and economic collaboration programmes./.
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MoLISA Deputy Minister Nguyen Thi Ha speaks at the event (Photo: VNA) 
