National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue requested the Supreme People's Court to preside over and coordinate with the Ministry of Labor, Public Security, and Trade Union to remove obstacles in lawsuit procedures related to social insurance and bring to trial a number of cases of evasion of payment.
The 30-minute questioning of Minister of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs Dao Ngoc Dung on the afternoon of June 6 was lively with the debate on handling social insurance evasion as well as questions from delegates about the effectiveness of vocational training for rural youth, low responsibility for disbursement of housing support packages, vocational training not commensurate with potential...
Delegate Truong Trong Nghia (Ho Chi Minh City Bar Association) debated the slow handling of social insurance debt that Mr. Dung had answered in the morning, saying that the situation was getting worse with a debt of more than 14,000 billion VND. He was "extremely surprised by this figure" and suggested that parties such as the National Assembly 's Judicial Committee, the investigation agency, and the court join together to handle it thoroughly.
With many years of experience in legal work, he affirmed that it cannot be said that there is no legal basis to criminally prosecute some cases of evasion and appropriation of social insurance money because this money has been deducted from the employee's salary. On the contrary, according to Mr. Nghia, there is absolutely a basis to resolve and "must review the responsibility of the supervisory agency" when there are businesses that have owed social insurance for decades without doing anything.
"The current legal system cannot say that it is powerless to not handle this situation," he affirmed.
Delegate Truong Trong Nghia debates during the question-and-answer session on the afternoon of June 6. Photo: National Assembly Media
Agreeing with delegate Nghia's debate, Minister Dung said that last month he advised the Prime Minister to issue a document assigning a competent agency to take the lead in handling violations more fundamentally and systematically.
Delegate Tran Van Tien (Vice Chairman of the Vinh Phuc Province Construction Association) expressed concern that the housing support package for workers has expired but only more than half of it has been disbursed. Mr. Tien asked the Minister to clarify the reasons and who is responsible?
Minister Dung explained that the National Assembly allowed the use of a maximum of VND6,800 billion in support to attract workers back to the market. After the National Assembly approved the policy, the Government issued Decision 08 to assign allocation criteria to provinces and cities. The support package used up more than VND4,500 billion. "All workers eligible for support have received money according to regulations," said Mr. Dung, adding that more than VND2,300 billion that had not been used up had been returned to the budget. The Ministry will seek opinions on using this amount to support workers in other packages and the decision-making authority belongs to the Government and the National Assembly.
Minister Dao Ngoc Dung had nearly half an hour to answer questions on the afternoon of June 6. Photo: National Assembly Media
Vocational training and human resource quality continued to be questioned by many delegates in this afternoon's session. Delegate Do Chi Nghia was concerned that Directive 21 set a target of 50-55% of high school students going to vocational schools. This is a high rate and according to Mr. Nghia, achieving it will be very difficult.
Minister Dung said the target rate of high school students going into vocational training by 2025 is 40-45%; by 2030 it will be 50-55%. Although the target is difficult and high, it is extremely important.
Regarding the stream, Minister Dung said that close coordination is needed between the Ministry of Education and Training and the Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs. In which, the education sector is responsible for streamlining, while the labor sector prepares output, receives students so that when they enter vocational training, they can be trained immediately. Current vocational training facilities are capable of handling 3 million people. The goal in the coming time is that 9th grade students can enter vocational school immediately, then continue their studies.
Participating in the explanation, Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha said that Vietnam's labor productivity has not yet made a breakthrough. In the coming time, it is necessary to review issues related to the country's green growth, human resource development, education and training, and science and technology. All of these are related to one of the three strategic breakthroughs: human resource development.
National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue chaired the question-and-answer session on June 6. Photo: National Assembly Media
National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue assessed that 99 delegates registered to question, of which 35 directly asked questions and 11 delegates debated, showing their interest in this field. He requested the Government, Minister Dao Ngoc Dung and relevant sector heads to fully absorb the delegates' comments and resolutely implement the 6 proposed solutions.
That is to effectively implement the Party and State's policy on vocational education associated with the labor market; completely resolve the benefits for business owners who have paid compulsory social insurance this year; restructure labor-intensive industries; complete the dossier of the revised Social Insurance Law project to submit to the National Assembly for comments at the next session.
He requested the Supreme People's Court to preside over and coordinate with the Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs, the Ministry of Public Security, and the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor to remove obstacles in lawsuit procedures related to social insurance and bring to trial a number of cases of evasion of social insurance payment; review the Law on Employment, build an information system and forecast the labor market to meet practical needs.
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