Draft law on Vietnamese guest workers debated at NA
The National Assembly (NA) mulled over a draft revised law on Vietnamese guest workers with contracts in Hanoi on May 21, the second working day of its ongoing ninth session.
Minister of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs Dao Ngoc Dung (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) - The National Assembly (NA) mulled over a draft revised law onVietnamese guest workers with contracts in Hanoi on May 21, the second workingday of its ongoing ninth session.
Authorised by the Prime Minister, Minister of Labour, Invalidsand Social Affairs Dao Ngoc Dung presented a proposal for the draft law.
He said the amendment aims to institutionalise relevantpolicies and guidelines recently adopted by the Party and the national constitutionthat was supplemented and reviewed in 2013.
Sending Vietnameseworkers abroad is a long-term and consistent policy in job generation, povertyreduction, and skills training during national construction amid industrialisationand modernisation, he said.
With eightchapters and 79 articles, the draft law supplements the types of contracts andregulations on non-State funds for overseas job support used to serveinformation efforts, assist enterprises expanding operations, and promoteVietnamese human resources, among others.
Nguyen Thuy Anh, headof the NA’s Committee for Social Affairs, presented a report assessing thedraft law, saying the assessment agency basically agrees on the necessity of buildingthe legal document.
The committee proposedthe Government and the compilation board make clear those subject to the draftlaw and whether it suits the policy on mobilising the participation ofdifferent economic sectors in public services.
The assessment agency alsoagreed with the Government’s proposal for maintaining the overseas job support fundwhich it said should serve both enterprises and workers.
The Government andthe compilation board should pay more heed to the fund’s feasibility, equality,transparency, and efficiency./.
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Minister of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs Dao Ngoc Dung (Photo: VNA) 
