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11th ASEAN Forum on Migrant Labour

ASEAN forum adopts recommendations on the use of digital technologies for a fair labour migration

The 11th ASEAN Forum on Labour Migration concluded with the adoption of 15 recommendations on how digitalisation can contribute to decent work for migrant workers.

Op-Ed

How digitalization can help achieve fair migration

The 11th ASEAN Forum on Migrant Labour held in Singapore on 29-30 October discussed how to maximize the potential of digitalization to promote decent work for migrant workers in the Asia Pacific region. Anna Engblom, senior expert on labour...

Labour migration

Viet Nam recommends digital initiatives to promote decent work for migrant workers

The 11th ASEAN Forum on Migrant Labour with the theme “Digitalization to Promote Decent Work for Migrant Workers in ASEAN” will focus on how leveraging digitalization can protect the rights of workers through increased transparency in migration...

Better Work Viet Nam

Partnerships crucial for future of sustainable supply chains

Better Work and Vietnamese garment industry partners gather to discuss sustainability in an era of uncertainty.

Labour statistics

Labour indicators set out to guide Viet Nam’s 2030 Agenda on Sustainable Development

The list of labour and employment indicators serves as the basis for monitoring and evaluation of the Viet Nam Sustainable Development Goals’ targets.

Opinion

EU-Viet Nam trade deal important to encourage Viet Nam to stay on course of labour reform

ILO Viet Nam Director, Chang-Hee Lee, comments on the role of the EU- Viet Nam Free Trade Agreement to the country’s journey towards democratic governance in labour markets.

Opening speech by ILO Viet Nam Director at 7th ASEAN Labour Inspection Conference

ILO Viet Nam Director, Chang-Hee Lee, delivers the opening remarks at the 7th ASEAN Labour Inspection Conference - Strategic Labour Inspection for Decent Work Including in Global Supply Chains on 27-28 September 2018 in HCM City.

ILO-Japan programme

Japanese parliamentary members explore effective ways to support Viet Nam’s labour issues

The delegation aimed to identify decent work challenges faced by Vietnamese workers and find solutions to address them as more and more major Japanese companies are choosing Viet Nam to locate their factories.

Our impact, their voices

Better Work Viet Nam challenges sexual harassment across the factory floor

Still an underreported issue in the country, the joint programme of the ILO and the International Finance Cooperation (IFC), sheds light on the nature of harassment in the workplace and ways to tackle it.

Event

Speech at ILO Centenary Celebration

By Deborah Greenfield, ILO Deputy Director, on the occasion of ILO Centenary Celebration entitled ILO 100 years – Journey for Social Justice: "Shared ideals of Ho Chi Minh and ILO towards decent work for all” on 27 August 2019

International labour standards

Free trade deal with EU calls on Viet Nam to ratify remaining fundamental labour standards

ILO’s fundamental conventions provide for rights that should enable labour market actors in Viet Nam to decide on and support the adjustments to labour market governance necessitated by trade liberalization.

Trade union

Nation’s industrial zone unions network established

The network, which includes 50 trade unions of industrial zones, processing zones and economic zones in 48 cities and provinces across the country, is a ‘soft’ mechanism based on a voluntary basis, to support each another in performing trade union...

Labour research

Grant winners announced for 2018 Labour Research Contest

Five winning proposals will receive funding and capacity building support to complete their research by end of this year.

OpEd

Viet Nam’s social security reform looks to the future

ILO’s senior specialist Nuno Cunha analyses the new resolution on the Master Plan on Social Insurance Reform which reflects the country’s comprehensive and integrated approach to address challenges in the years to come.

Applying the G20 Training Strategy in Viet Nam (Phase 2)

Social partners discuss sectoral Skills governance strategies in Viet Nam

The G20 Training Strategy project aims to enhance the relevance of education and training outcomes to labour market demands and to build the capacity of those engaged on Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) through assisting the...

Speech

Sustainable development is not a choice, but the only way

ILO Viet Nam Director, Chang-Hee Lee, made the speech at the celebration of the International Day of Cooperatives in Hanoi on 7 July 2018.

Child labour

National alliance key to fight child labour in Viet Nam

A national forum calls on the legal framework to be expanded to the informal economy where the majority of child labourers are found.

Labour migration

Trade unions should play a bigger role in ensuring safe labour migration

It is important that Viet Nam’s legislation strengthens the role of trade unions in representing and protecting migrant workers, as well as in formulation of laws, policies and programmes.

Why we need to recognize migrant domestic workers’ contribution to our economies

Op-ed by Ms Tomoko Nishimoto, Assistant Director-General of the International Labour Organization and Regional Director for Asia and the Pacific

Industrial relations

Historic resolution guides Viet Nam’s wage reform

Party Resolution 27-NQ/TW, one of the two important documents issued as the result of the Central Party meeting on 7-12 May 2018, takes into account ILO Viet Nam’s suggestions in reforming the country’s wage policies.