Most opinions at the debate at the National Assembly supported Vietnam’s joining Convention 98 of the International Labour Organisation on the application of principles of the right to organise and bargain collectively.

The share of job seekers who are using formal channels (employment services) is growing in Vietnam, but still accounts for a minority of the job search channels used. 

Tran Anh Tuan, deputy director of the HCMC Center for Human Resources Forecasting and Labor Market Information, said that the risk of losing jobs has increased in the 4.0 industrial revolution era. 

To ensure sustainable development, economists emphasize the need to reform the growth model and improve productivity.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam is finding it difficult to fill high-ranking officers for businesses, as most CEOs continue to be foreigners.

Scientists have repeatedly urged eliminating white asbestos in Vietnam as soon as possible, while government officials still debate the matter, saying that no scientific research can find a relation between white asbestos and cancer.

A labor relations system based on freedom of association and the recognition of the collective bargaining right is a common feature of modern market economies as it helps create a better balance of power between workers and employers,

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnamese businesses simply do outsourcing for foreign enterprises. They just do what they are told to do. As they don’t have markets, their productivity is low, business people say.

VietNamNet Bridge - Economic institutions have in the last month have repeatedly warned about the low productivity rate in Vietnam compared with other regional countries.

VietNamNet Bridge - Experts doubt that the minimum wage can be lifted each year if Vietnam’s productivity remains low compared with other ASEAN countries.

VietNamNet Bridge - According to the International Labor Organization (ILO), only one-third of the labor force in Vietnam works in the formal sector and workers in the banking, technology, and real estate earn the highest pay.

The Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs will work with the International Labor Organization (ILO) on a new method to calculate the unemployment rate in Vietnam after the second quarter’s 1.84 percent rate raised controversy.

The International Labor Organization released a report showing that the labour productivity rate in VIetnam is the lowest in Asia Pacific, but it noted later that productivity rates do not necessarily reflect workers’ diligence and ability.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs said it will work with the General Statistics Office and the International Labor Organization to find a more suitable method to measure the unemployment rate in Vietnam.

The Vietnam General Confederation of Labour (VGCL) has strongly condemned China’s violent acts targeting Vietnamese fishermen within the waters of Vietnam, at the 103rd International Labour Conference in Geneva.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese football striker Le Cong Vinh is taking part in a campaign launched by the International Labour Organization (ILO) to prevent child labour.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam offers no paternity leave whereas nearly half of the countries worldwide encourage involvement of fathers around childbirth, according to a new report by the International Labour Organisation (ILO).

 Traffic safety rules tightened at Noi Bai; Pillar collapse kills student in Binh Dinh school; Rotten meat seized in southern province; Bodies of snail farmers found at sea; Nghe An police bust trans-border drug ring

Vietnam’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Report in the second cycle was reviewed at a session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHCR) on February 5 in Geneva, Switzerland.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam is striving to perfect its laws and policies to foster the rights of disabled people and plans to ratify the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) in 2014.