SDG 8 Decent work and economic growth

“Future of Work: The Choice of Vietnam” was the theme of the Labour Forum 2019 held in Hanoi on November 27.  The event was jointly held by the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA), partners and the International Labour Organisation (ILO)’s Country Office for Vietnam.According to the ...

Vietnam is ranked second in the top 20 countries in terms of salary growth in a recent report from ECA International, a global provider of information, software, and expertise for the management and assignment of employees around the world.Vietnam leads the Southeast Asia region with ...

The retirement age for male and female workers will increase from 60 and 55 at present to 62 and 60 respectively in 2035 under the revised Labour Code that was passed by National Assembly deputies on November 20.The document, which sailed through the legislature with ...

Vietnam is 80 years behind developed countries in approving a 40-hour work week law, which is needed to ensure workers’ quality of life, lawmakers say. On another proposal from the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs to increase overtime cap from 300 hours a year to 400, ...

Vietnam improves the most among 141 economies, up 10 places to rank 67th in terms of competitiveness, according to the latest Global Competitiveness Report 2019 recently released by the World Economic Forum (WEF). According to the report, Vietnam scored 61.5 points out of the maximum 100 ...

A report by the National Assembly Committee for Culture, Education, Youth, Adolescents and Children has pointed out that the partnerships between vocational schools and companies remained loose and unable to satisfy the rising demands of the labour market.Vu Tien Loc, head of the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and ...

Opting out of traditional eight-hours-a-day, five-days-a-week office work, many Vietnamese are now looking to freelance, reflecting a global trend. According to Manpower’s 2018 Total Workforce Index, Vietnam has over 57 million employees with 70 percent coming from the Y generation (born between 1976 and 1995) and ...

The Vietnam’s Industry 4.0 Summit 2019 officially opened in Hanoi on October 3 as part of the activities to realise the Politburo’s Resolution No. 52-NQ/TW on actively participating in the Fourth Industrial Revolution to accelerate the national development. Under the theme of “Vietnam’s Strategy & Action ...

Experts discussed the impacts of climate change on economic development in Vietnam using the Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model at an international workshop at the Foreign Trade University (FTU) on September 30.CGE is an economic model that uses actual economic data to estimate how an ...

On 30/9, SAP and UNICEF announced a new partnership to provide quality education, life skills and digital skills training to adolescents in disadvantaged communities in Viet Nam, preparing them for decent work and active citizenship.The three-year partnership, joining hands with the Government of Viet Nam, ...