HCM City (VNA) – The national cooperation programme signed betweenVietnam and the International Labour Organisation (ILO) in December 2017 hascreated sustainable employment and business opportunities for employees andemployers, heard a workshop held in Ho Chi Minh City on July 30.

After two years of implementation, the programmehas contributed to speeding up the building of the revised Law on Labour,institutionalising views on labour relations, and promoting equal rightsbetween employers and employees, said Nguyen Manh Cuong, Director of theDepartment for International Cooperation under the Ministry of Labour, Invalidsand Social Affairs.

The programme has also helped increase dialoguesand promote democracy and labour creativity as well as improve the framework onbuilding harmonious, stable and progressive relations at the workplace, headded.

It is expected to accelerate the adoption andpromulgation of a scheme on reforming social insurance and wage policies, Cuongsaid.

He noted that this year, Vietnam has joinedthree important technical conventions of the ILO: Convention 88 on EmploymentService, Convention 159 on Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment (DisabledPersons), and Convention 98 on Application of the Principles of the Right toOrganise and to Bargain Collectively.

Dr. Dao Quang Vinh from the Institute of LabourScience and Social Affairs said the programme has created better opportunitiesfor sustainable employment and business for both male and female workers,especially those in the vulnerable groups. 

It also helped reduce significantly unacceptableforms of employment, especially child labour and forced one, he said.

Social security has been expanded and deployedto a larger target groups thanks to the programme, he added, citing 31 percentof the labour force in the working age has participated in social insurance and87.7 percent of the population has joined health insurance.

Chang-Hee Lee, Directorof ILO Country Office for Vietnam, said Vietnam is oneof the dynamic economies with sustainable growth for many consecutive years.

Vietnam has made revisions to the revised Law onLabour while participating in free trade agreements, which showed the country’seconomy has step by step been strengthened and grown strongly, according to theILO official.

This is the foundation to help Vietnam advancequickly in the process of national industrialisation and modernisation, headded.

At the workshop, participants proposed designinga national administration system on labour and national human resources.-VNA