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 Many companies claim they are short of thousands of labourers, while they are struggling [...]
The science and technology sector had made great achievements in the last five years, but it needed to continue developing the country’s professional workforce to meet the nation’s socio-economic development demands, said Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Thien Nhan yesterday. Nhan made the comment at a national conference in Ha Noi yesterday to review the development [...]
Up to 60% of manpower in Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi have not been trained, though the city has strived its best to improve quality of its workforce for years, said the municipal Department of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs. The city now ranks the second in population with over 6.4 million, following Ho [...]
Vietnam lacks long-term human resource development strategies to maintain a high-quality workforce, according to a new report from the Vietnam Marketing and Management Institute. Phan An, a consultant to the institute who wrote the report, said many businesses focused on conforming to national law on salaries, insurance and other personnel policies, and neglected the important [...]
On August 10, Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Thien Nhan chaired an online conference with leaders from 63 provinces, cities, centrally-run ministries and sectors to discuss a future planning for human resource development in the 2011-2015 period. The scheme is part of the national strategy for human resource development through 2020 and lays a foundation for [...]
The Hanoi municipal administration has approved a programme to generate 705,000 jobs, including 23,000 abroad, for the 2011-15 period. The scheme comes from the pressure of a boom in workforce, which, as forecast by the municipal Service of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs, is to reach 4.6 million by 2015, or 90,000 new comers in [...]
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