During talks on September 6 with visiting Minister of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs Dao Ngoc Dung, Japan’s Minister of Justice Yasuhito Hanashi said the country will be hiring people in a number of professions in the immediate future, with the priority on elderly care. The Ministry of Justice will propose expanding the acceptance of trainees as drivers.
Over the past ten years, Vietnam’s labor export markets have grown from nine in 2013 to 25 now, with more than a million Vietnamese workers and experts heading overseas. Remittances sent home have increased five-fold, averaging $10 billion a year.
A representative from ManpowerGroup Vietnam presented survey data on Vietnam’s labor market at the “Development of a flexible, modern, sustainable and integrated labor market” conference. Low skills and low English use partly contribute to salaries for Vietnamese workers being far behind those in the region.
Vietnamese workers and interns will be unable to enter Japan for the time being as the Japanese Government decided to suspend the entry of foreigners from November 30, to prevent any spread of the Omicron variant. Japan is a key labor export market for Vietnam, recruiting nearly 19,200 Vietnamese workers in the first ten months of this year.
Taiwan (China) has announced new regulations extending one-year labor contracts for foreign workers, including Vietnamese citizens working for families or companies. To have their contract extended, the employee must have been employed as a family worker for 14 years or 12 years in other occupations.
