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Social protection

Pension system: difficult choices to overcome a major crisis

The pension fund in Viet Nam faces a crisis, but the required reforms are not popular. ILO Viet Nam specialist on social protection, Carlos Galian, analyses the difficult choices for the Government.

New initiative to support policy-makers in finding workable solutions to the youth employment crisis

A new initiative to help policy-makers find solutions to the challenge of youth employment was launched by the ILO in Bangkok. This initiative will focus on sharing knowledge about youth employment policies in 13 countries in Asia and the Pacific.

Non-discrimination

New initiative to help people with disabilities claim their rights

A joint ILO, UNDP and UNICEF programme in Viet Nam will help include people with disabilities in all decision-making steps through strengthening the capacities and role of organizations of people with disabilities.

Press release

Bangladesh Minimum Wages Board returns from study tour to Cambodia and Viet Nam

Members of the Minimum Wage Board returned to Dhaka on Friday from a study tour to Cambodia and Viet Nam. The aim of the study tour was to better understand the approaches taken in other countries in order to inform the Board’s on-going negotiations...

Gender Equality

Window of opportunity for Viet Nam to improve gender equality at work

Viet Nam has a lot of opportunity to address gender equality at workplaces, which helps industrial relations, but more efforts are needed in this area.

Viet Nam

Helping recruitment agencies make a difference

The recruitment agency association in Viet Nam is piloting a self-regulatory tool to promote fair competition and better protect migrant workers.

Meeting to examine measures to protect migrant fishers in the ASEAN region

International standards on work in fishing, national policies, legislative frameworks, experiences and good practices on the protection of migrant fishers is the focus of a meeting among ASEAN Member States being held 12-13 September in Makassar,...

New report

ILO study examines working conditions in Thai fishing industry

A new report has found shortfalls in Thailand’s fishing industry in relation to national and international labour standards.

Labour market

Asia-Pacific on the road to middle-class employment

A recent ILO study shows that despite robust economic growth in the Asia-Pacific region, millions of people are still living under or just above the poverty line.

Maritime Labour Convention, 2006

New Horizon for Vietnamese seafarers

With the Maritime Labour Convention 2006 now in force, ratifying countries, like Vietnam, are turning to implementation.

Social security

Report projects future financial woes of social security fund

A report released today by the International Labour Organization (ILO) suggests that the Viet Nam Social Security Fund (VSS) could start having deficits by 2021 and experience depletion by 2034 if no reforms are made.

Global shipping industry sets sail under new standard

A new “bill of rights” – the ILO’s Maritime Labour Convention – comes into force, ensuring protection for the world’s 1.5 million seafarers and fair competition for shipowners. Viet Nam is the 37th country to ratify the Convention.

Job quality undermines youth potentials and national growth

The quality of jobs available for young people aged between 15 and 29 is ringing an alarm in the youth labour market in Viet Nam, the first national school-to-work transition survey has shown on the occasion of the International Youth Day (12...

National workshop: “Social Security Laws: Standards, Policy and Legislation”, Luang Prabang, Lao PDR, from 27 to 29 August 2013

The ILO DWT for East and South-East Asia and the Pacific will organize a series of technical training workshops on areas related to social security, including minimum standards and legislation, financing of schemes, social health insurance,...

National wage council launched, giving employers and workers a voice in minimum wage setting

The establishment of Viet Nam’s National Wage Council marks a transformation from a solely Government-led minimum wage fixing mechanism into a new tripartite body which recognizes the importance of workers and employers’ participation.

ILO Viet Nam Director's Speech on the occasion of the launching ceremony of National Wage Council in Viet Nam

By Mr Gyorgy Sziraczki, Director, ILO Country Office for Viet Nam, at the Launching Ceremony of National Wage Council In Viet Nam, Hanoi, Viet Nam, 6 August 2013

ILO industrial relations specialist awarded medal by Vietnamese Government

International Labour Organization (ILO) industrial relations specialist Yoon Youngmo was awarded a medal for the cause of labour, invalids and social affairs by the Vietnamese Government in Hanoi on 25 July.

Trade Union Law now available in English

The bilingual publication of the 2012 Law on Trade Unions was launched on 23 July in Hanoi by the Viet Nam General Confederation of Labour (VGCL). The translation of the law into English, as well as the amendment process of the law, was supported by...

Viet Nam’s leading labour journalists trained in Labour Code

More than 30 labour and employment journalists from major media organizations in Viet Nam gathered in the central city of Da Nang on 18 July for a training workshop in the new Labour Code.

Regional trade unions cooperation needed to better protect migrant workers

The International Labour Organization (ILO) called on South-east Asian countries to build strong coordination and cooperation among their trade unions for the protection of international migrant workers, who are often vulnerable to unfair treatment,...