Welcome to the ILO Country Office for Viet Nam. The ILO and its tripartite constituents – the government together with representatives of employers and workers organizations – play its role within the UN and multilateral system supporting Viet Nam’s socio-economic development. In partnership with our constituents, the ILO provides technical assistance on a range of key labour market development issues. We focus on creating more and better jobs through enterprise development, ensuring basic social services for all, and building triparatism by promoting industrial relations and social dialogue.
ILO is a specialized agency of the United Nations
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ILO Country Office for Viet Nam48-50 Nguyen Thai Hoc StreetHanoi, Viet NamTel:+84 4 3734 0907Fax:+84 4 3734 0904Website:http://www.ilo.org/hanoiEmail:HANOI@ilo.org
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What's New
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ILO Viet Nam newsletter, Oct-Dec 2012
19 December 2012The second newsletter of the ILO Country Office for Viet Nam focuses on the Asian and European Labour Ministers' Conference, an MoU signed between the ILO and the country's statistics office, jobs opportunities for people with disability, and improving productivity for small and medium enterprises. The newsletter also highlights gender issues in Viet Nam's new Labour Code and a new manager-staff union dialogue mechanism initiated by an ILO’s programme.
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Viet Nam needs practical guidance to protect domestic workers
19 December 2012Viet Nam has made a good start in the area of domestic workers by its coverage in the amended Labour Code but specific circumstances of this group require more detailed guidance to make the new law doable, the ILO has said.
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Nearly 1 million out of work, stronger job creation needed
18 December 2012Nearly 1 million workers remain unemployed as the economy couldn’t create enough jobs for both new entrants to the labour force and the existing jobless, according to the Labour Force Survey Report 2012. Launched in Hanoi on 18 December by the General Statistics Office (GSO) with the ILO support, the report shows the employed population increased by 1.1 million over the last three quarters but at the same time, Viet Nam’s labour force expanded at the same rate.
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ILO project in Quang Nam, December 2012 newsletter
16 December 2012The 'Strengthening of Inland Tourism in Quang Nam' project has published its monthly newsletter for December 2012. The focus of this issue is a joint conference on promoting sustainable tourism initiatives and locally-made products in Quang Nam Province. The publication also highlights a workshop on working conditions in Quang Nam's tourism sector and other activities including training courses for local people and the collection of information for the provincial rural tourism strategy.
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Viet Nam’s wage growth increases despite continuing global slowdown
07 December 2012Viet Nam has experienced robust wage growth while a new ILO report shows a worse slowdown in global wages. The country, however, still needs to address many challenges, including the informal economy, low productivity and widening gender pay gap.
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Enhance job opportunities for people with disabilities for everyone's benefits
30 November 2012Viet Nam has lost 3 per cent of its Gross Domestic Product as the result of the involuntary exclusion of persons with disabilities from the labour market. On the occasion of the International Day of Persons with Disabilities (3 December), the ILO is calling for investment in more effective inclusion strategies that can yield returns to society and benefit everyone.
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Young rural people need employment supports
27 November 2012Young rural people, who are often left behind in education and training, need supports to get access to quality jobs. A forum organized by the International Labour Organization in the northern province of Phu Tho on 26 November listens to the voice of this important group and delivers their messages to policy-makers.
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UNESCO, ILO and FAO organize joint workshop on sustainable tourism in Hoi An
22 November 2012A two-day workshop on promoting sustainable tourism opened in Hoi An on 22 November to increase local community benefit in Quang Nam Province. The event was co-organized by the Quang Nam Provincial People’s Committee and three UN agencies, UNESCO, ILO and FAO.
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ILO Viet Nam Director: Vietnamese teachers need more supports to make education beneficial to all
15 November 2012Addressing the celebration of the Vietnamese Teachers' Day, Mr Gyorgy Sziraczki, ILO Viet Nam Country Director highlighted the need for urgent actions to make teaching a decent job that deserves the status it already has in the Vietnamese society. The event entitled "Role and status of teachers in building an inclusive, creative and sustainable learning society" was coorganised by the ILO, the UNESCO and the Viet Nam Association for Learning Promotion in Hanoi on 15 November.
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Women should be better protected at workplaces
14 November 2012The amended Labour Code is expected as a major step forward in promoting gender equality, particularly protecting women from sexual harassment at workplaces, but it is not enough to make female workers happy.
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Asian-European labour ministers commit to fostering employment with focus on young people
26 October 2012Labour ministers from Asian and European countries agreed on the need for policies to foster employment and create decent jobs amid the global credit crunch, stated the Hanoi Declaration on Employment and Social Protection – a Key to Sustainable and Inclusive Growth.
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Priority should be given to addressing job prospects deterioration: ILO Asia-Pacific Director
25 October 2012Asia and the whole world should urgently address the deterioration of job prospects as it is starting to feed social tension around the globe, new ILO Regional Director for Asia and the Pacific Yoshiteru Uramoto said today.
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Bilateral MoU signed to improve country’s labour statistics
24 October 2012Viet Nam’s labour statistics will be improved in the next four years under a memorandum of understanding signed between the General Statistics Office (GSO) and the International Labour Organisation (ILO) in Hanoi.
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Newsletter, Better Work Vietnam, Sep-Dec 2012
24 October 2012The Newsletter No.7 of Better Work Vietnam for Sep-Dec 2012 updates news, activities and upcoming events of the project until the end of the year.
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Asia-Pacific: quality and quantity of jobs dropping
22 October 2012Slowing growth in many Asian countries has accentuated labour market challenges in a region that has the world’s largest youth population, and where precarious work is widespread.
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Press release
$4.5M Employment assistance projects announced at first National Decent Work Committee
24 September 2012The International Labour Organisation (ILO) in Viet Nam announced its new assistance projects worth US$4.56 million at the first meeting of the new Viet Nam Decent Work Country Programme Steering Committee in Hanoi.
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Press release
Vietnam’s new labour laws to improve labour market and industrial relations
24 September 2012A conference entitled “Introduction of the Labour Code and Trade Union Law: Opportunities and Challenges” was organised in Hanoi by the National Assembly’s Social Committee, Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs, Vietnam General Confederation of Labour (VGCL) and the International Labour Organisation (ILO) in Viet Nam to give social partners and the public an insight into the important changes brought about by the amended laws.
