Workshop to provide new regulations for Vietnamese workers in RoK held
A seminar was held on October 29 in Seoul, the Republic of Korea (RoK), to disseminate new regulations relating to Vietnamese workers working in the RoK under the Employment Permit System (EPS) programme.
Pham Minh Duc, head of the EPS Office, speaks at the event (Photo: VNA)
Seoul (VNA) - A seminar was held on October 29 in Seoul, theRepublic of Korea (RoK), to disseminate new regulations relating to Vietnamese workersworking in the RoK under the Employment Permit System (EPS) programme.
Pham Minh Duc, head of the EPS Office, said the annual event provides aplatform in which to discuss new regulations and policies, along with emergingissues relating to Vietnamese workers in the RoK, especially amid thechallenges brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Addressing the seminar, Kim Sung-jae, Director of the Human ResourcesDevelopment Service of Korea (HRDK), highlighted the diligence of Vietnamese guestworkers, adding that since the beginning of the year the RoK has not received newguest workers from Vietnam as a result of the COVID-19 epidemic.
He advised Vietnamese workers whose labour contracts have expired to visit the RoK’simmigration offices in order to apply for a temporary suspension of their exitpermit. The HRDK will continue to organise additional activities in an effortto support foreign workers as soon as the COVID-19 pandemic is brought undercontrol in the RoK.
Currently, there are approximately 1,200 Vietnamese workers under the EPSprogramme who have returned to the country on repatriation flights from the RoK
As of June 30, roughly 34,600 Vietnamese migrant workers were still working inthe RoK under the EPS scheme./.
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Pham Minh Duc, head of the EPS Office, speaks at the event (Photo: VNA) 
