Vietnamese labourers learn Japanese before going to Japan to work as caregivers (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) - Vietnameselabourers, especially skilled ones, are expected to get more opportunities towork abroad this year.
The Department of Overseas Labour under the Ministry of Labour, Invalid andSocial Affairs (MoLISA) said apart from perennial markets such as Taiwan andMalaysia, this year’s potential labour markets include Japan, the Republic of Korea,Germany and Middle East countries, the Voice of Vietnam (VOV)online newspaper reported on January 23 morning.
“Thus, the important thing we have to do is prepare a source of skilledlabourers to meet the demand,” Pham Viet Huong, deputy head of the department,said.
Improving foreign language and professional skills of each labourer who desiredto work in high-requirement markets was essential, he said.
The additional opportunities came after the ministry signed a range ofagreements with its partners in these countries in 2016.
Under the ministry’s summary report issued recently, in 2016, MoLISA and theRepublic of Korea’s Ministry of Employment and Labour re-signed a standardMemorandum of Understanding (MoU) to continue receiving Vietnamese labourersworking in the RoK following four years of suspension due to the high rate ofillegal Vietnamese workers in the country.
Also in 2016, Vietnam signed an agreement with Germany on Vietnamese nursesworking in Germany’s hospitals. It offered additional chances for Vietnameselabourers to work in Germany.
Meanwhile, Japan recently approved a new law offering more opportunities toforeign labourers working in Japan, including Vietnamese, the report said.
This year, MoLISA has initially targeted sending 105,000 labourers to workabroad. It also plans to sign agreements with its partners in Laos, Thailandand Australia to send labourers to work in these countries in 2017, Huong said.
He said the ministry is scheduled to submit to the government the projecttitled “Sending skilled labourers to work abroad 2017-20” with vision towards2025.
Last year, Vietnam initially planned to send 100,000 labourers to work abroad.However, the actual number achieved was 126,296, some eight percent higher thanin 2015.
The report revealed that 2016 was the third consecutive year that Vietnam sentmore than 100,000 labourers to work abroad.-VNA
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Vietnamese labourers learn Japanese before going to Japan to work as caregivers (Photo: VNA) 
