The Overseas Workers Management Bureau is working hard to reach an
agreement on labour with Israel to open the way into this lucrative
market for Vietnamese farm workers.
Bureau head,
Nguyen Ngoc Quynh, unveiled the plan after emphasising that the absence
of such an agreement was a major hurdle for Vietnamese guest workers to
tap the world’s most developed agricultural market, which is not
demanding while offering high incomes.
The fact
that Israel needs just between 4,000 and 5,000 guest workers annually
while Thailand has already met up to 60 percent of the demand has pushed
Vietnamese authorities to rush to reach an agreement in this field.
The Overseas Workers Management Bureau says guest workers can get paid between 1,300 and 1,500 USD a month.
In 2008, the Middle East market embarked on receiving Vietnamese
guest workers through a programme of cooperation in training of
apprentices signed with the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural
Development. As a result, 236 Vietnamese guest workers have been so far
sent to work in Israel with annual net incomes ranging from 5,000
USD to 7,000 USD./.
