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Economic rebound creates more jobs for Vietnam’s guest workers
Overseas job prospects for Vietnamese workers have begun to improve as many countries and economies are increasing recruitment and offering higher salaries amid signs of economic recovery.
Pham Van Dai, Job Training Director at Hanoi-based labor company Emico, said job opportunities in Taiwan, one of Vietnam’s main labor markets, were rising.
Dai said his company has received more contracts from Taiwan since the third quarter. The company sent 300 workers to Taiwan during this period, up six times from the first three months of the year.
Nguyen Hai Nam, Director of Sovilaco, a labor export company managed by the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs, said it would send another 600 workers abroad by the end of this year after a sharp decline of more than 50 percent in the first three quarters to only 600 workers.
Malaysia, which stopped hiring guest workers from Vietnam in some sectors to ensure jobs for locals in March, has begun to recruit Vietnamese workers again.
Bang Son, Director of Dong Thap Province Job Center, said many Malaysian firms have asked the center to recruit hundreds of workers for each. Some firms that had to eliminate jobs amid the economic slump now wanted to hire Vietnamese workers, Son said.
Other labor markets in Asia and the Middle East have also recovered, experts said. Demand for guest workers in Japan, for example, was surging as the government has launched incentives to promote car sales, boosting production in the auto industry.
Dai of Emico said foreign firms not only recruited more but they also offered higher salaries for Vietnamese guest workers. For instance, the average monthly salary for Vietnamese workers in Taiwan was now about VND20 million, double that offered early this year.
To Van Truong, an official at International Manpower Supply and Trade Company in Hanoi, said local labor supply was in fact struggling to catch up with increasing demand from Malaysia. Although Malaysian firms accepted to pay 40 percent more, the company still could not find enough Vietnamese workers, he said.
More than 45,600 Vietnamese workers were sent abroad in the first eight months, half the annual target, according to latest figures available. The Overseas Labor Management Department said Taiwan was the biggest market for Vietnamese labor in the first eight months, receiving 13,202 workers, followed by South Korea, Japan and the UAE.
thanhnien, sgtt
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