Sending Vietnamese workers abroad safely and at low cost thanks to a non-profit model

(Chinhphu.vn) - Without having to spend a lot of money, still having the opportunity to work in leading markets such as Korea, Japan, Germany - that is the advantage of non-profit programs implemented by the State. This model is helping tens of thousands of Vietnamese workers reach out to the world labor market, changing their lives with their own hands.

Deputy Minister of Home Affairs Vu Chien Thang speaks at the Conference - Photo: VGP/TG

On the morning of October 20, in Nghe An , the Ministry of Home Affairs coordinated with the People's Committee of Nghe An province to organize a conference on "Promoting effective implementation of programs to send workers to work abroad according to international agreements, meeting the requirements of tasks in the new situation".

In his opening speech, Deputy Minister of Home Affairs Vu Chien Thang emphasized that the conference took place in the context of the country promoting institutional reform, deep international integration and converting to a two-level local government model.

In recent times, the Party and the State have issued many major policies such as Resolution 59-NQ/TW on international integration, Resolution 66-NQ/TW on innovation in law making and enforcement, Resolution 57-NQ/TW on science and technology development, innovation and national digital transformation. These policies all consider people and human resources as the foundation of development, the central factor in the integration and sustainable development strategy.

According to Deputy Minister Vu Chien Thang, sending workers abroad under non-profit international agreements is considered the right direction, demonstrating humane thinking and strategic vision - both solving employment, increasing income, and contributing to the transfer of skills, knowledge and advanced labor culture to serve the country's industrialization and modernization process.

Vice Chairman of Nghe An Provincial People's Committee Nguyen Van De speaks at the Conference - Photo: VGP/TG

Effective channel to help workers change their lives

Under the direction of the Ministry of Home Affairs, the Department of Overseas Labor Management and the Overseas Labor Center have coordinated with localities to implement many non-profit programs with positive results.

To date, these programs have sent more than 155,000 Vietnamese workers to work in Korea, Japan, Germany, Taiwan (China) and Australia, with stable incomes, low costs, contributing about 17,000 billion VND in foreign exchange each year . The seasonal labor dispatch cooperation program in Korea alone since 2018 has sent about 7,000 workers, with an average income of over 2,000 USD/month.

The programs not only create jobs and improve people's lives, but also contribute to strengthening friendly relations and enhancing people-to-people exchanges between Vietnam and host countries.

However, Deputy Minister Vu Chien Thang also noted that awareness of the difference between non-profit and commercial models in some localities is still limited; brokerage and fraud still occur; and uneven international cooperation experience causes costs and scale of delegation to be limited.

The Deputy Minister suggested that delegates focus on discussing the replication of good models, drawing on practical experience and proposing support mechanisms for policy beneficiaries, poor households, remote areas, demobilized soldiers and police officers, aiming to improve the effectiveness and sustainability of non-profit programs.

From local practice, Vice Chairman of Nghe An Provincial People's Committee Nguyen Van De said that Nghe An always identifies sending workers to work abroad as a key task, contributing to socio-economic development and sustainable poverty reduction.

In the 2023-2025 period, the province has sent more than 60,000 workers abroad, an average of 20,000 people/year; currently, there are about 85,000 Nghe An people working abroad for a limited period, of which 16,500 are in Korea and 25,000 are in Japan. Annual remittances reach 600-650 million USD.

Nghe An is one of the leading localities implementing non-profit programs such as EPS , IM Japan , German nurses , Korean seasonal workers - all with low costs, transparency, and trusted by the people.

Nghe An province continues to identify 6 key task groups, emphasizing diversifying the international labor market, improving the quality of human resources, promoting digital transformation in management, supporting vulnerable workers and building a mechanism to connect sustainable jobs for repatriated workers.

Delegates attending the Conference - Photo: VGP/TG

Perfecting mechanisms and expanding non-profit models

At the conference, Director of the Overseas Labor Center Dang Huy Hong said that non-profit programs are especially suitable for policy workers and disadvantaged areas, thanks to transparent processes, low costs and financial support.

In the EPS program, workers in poor districts, coastal areas, and islands are given priority in selection and can borrow up to 100 million VND without having to mortgage or deposit, according to Decision 16/2023/QD-TTg. From 2013 to now, 3,786 policy workers have borrowed a total of 378.6 billion VND.

In addition, the IM Japan program also prioritizes workers in remote areas and ethnic minorities. The center has organized 93 job fairs with the participation of 1,900 businesses, connecting opportunities for more than 15,000 workers, of which 7,400 are from poor districts.

Mr. Dang Huy Hong proposed to develop a strategy to send workers to work abroad in a non-profit form in the Strategy to send workers to work abroad.

He also recommended that the Ministry of Home Affairs proactively promote international cooperation, include the content of sending and receiving non-profit workers right from the negotiation stage; amend and supplement international agreements and assign specific tasks to affiliated public service units.

Conference "Promoting effective implementation of programs to send workers to work abroad according to international agreements, meeting task requirements in the new situation" - Photo: VGP/TG

To promote efficiency after workers return home, Mr. Dang Huy Hong proposed allowing the Overseas Labor Center to participate in the National Employment Exchange , connecting and introducing jobs for workers who have completed the program. At the same time, it is necessary to develop a coordination regulation between the Ministry of Home Affairs, the Ministry of Public Security and the Ministry of National Defense in supporting and consulting demobilized soldiers and police officers to work abroad; research financial support policies through vocational training cards to train foreign languages ​​and skills before leaving.

At the conference, the Department of Overseas Labor Management discussed the implementation of the non-profit model; the Social Policy Bank updated preferential loan policies for workers; the Ministry of Public Security and the Ministry of National Defense proposed to strengthen coordination in developing policies to support demobilized soldiers and police officers. The conference also acknowledged the sharing of workers under the EPS program who successfully returned home to start their own businesses, and representatives of localities shared results and recommendations to perfect the non-profit model in the new period.

Thu Giang

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