Vietnam hopes to send 90,000 labourers abroad this year, nearly
2,000 more than last year's figure, according to the Overseas Labour
Management Department.
A Lao Dong (Labour) report said
earlier this week, the department will strictly monitor labour export
markets to sign labour contracts in time, focusing especially on markets
that offer high income, and are safe and suitable for Vietnamese
workers, such as Taiwan , Japan and the Republic of Korea .
The department will also continue activities to open up new labour
export markets such as the US , Australia and Canada , while
increasing the outflow to the Middle East when conditions are
suitable.
The Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social
Affairs (MoLISA) has said that it will give priority this year to
sending labourers abroad from the country's 62 poorest districts.
At the end of last year, the ministry had worked with Japanese authorities to send more workers to Japan this year.
According to the ministry, although the number of Vietnamese guest
workers sent to Japan is not large, they are mostly high-skilled
workers.
This year, for instance, Vietnam expects to send 500-1,000 trainee nurses to Japan .
The Japanese market has high demand for guest workers, but it is
difficult to expand this market because it has strict requirements, the
Lao Dong report cited experts as saying.
Malaysia is
another key market for Vietnam , but the basic salary offered in this
country is low that many Vietnamese workers have turned their back on
this market, according to the report.
Representatives of
several labour export companies have warned workers who want to work
abroad to carefully choose markets that are suitable for their financial
status, professional skills and health.
Labourers should also be aware of labour export scam brokers, they said.
Last year Vietnam sent 88,298 labourers abroad, exceeding the country's target of 87,000.
This is very significant because 2011 was a year full of difficulties
for the labour export sector, given the world economic crisis and
political instability in many countries, said MoLISA minister Pham Thi
Hai Chuyen./.
