It was jointly organised by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry - HCM City Branch.

A campaign to call for a hundred days without workplace accidents was launched in Ho Chi Minh City on September 27.

According to the organisers, more than 100 businesses in Vietnam have joined the campaign. They will participate in training courses on workplace safety and hygiene, fire prevention, and pay fact-finding trips to factories.

Participants will also receive regular updates on safety requirements in the hope of preventing workplace accidents after the campaign.

The campaign, running until the end of this year, also forms part of the activities marking the centenary of the ILO.

ILO Vietnam Director Chang-Hee Lee said both employers and workers need to understand risks and devise necessary measures to prevent workplace accidents. Compensation for losses caused by such accidents accounts for about 3.94 percent of global gross domestic product each year, he noted.

In Vietnam, workplace accidents killed more than 1,000 people and injured 8,200 others in 2018, according to statistics of the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs.

Labor ministry proposes seven-day Tet break next year

Vietnam's Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs has suggested two options for Tet that would both grant workers a seven-day break.

Bac Giang supports labors at suspended enterprises to find jobs

(BGO) – The Job Service Center (under Department of Labor – Invalids and Social Affairs in Bac Giang province) on July 31 continued to organize the mobile job transaction session in Huong Lam commune (Hiep Hoa district) to support the labors who lost their jobs due to the suspension of  Jungmin Pho Hoa Company Limited (Hiep Hoa district).

Over 3,000 rural labors offered vocational training

(BGO) – Implementing the project “Improving quality of vocational training to rural labors” under the National Target Programme to build the new style rural area (period 2016 - 2020), Bac Giang province has opened 90 courses of vocational training to more than 2,700 rural labors since early this year, making up over 74.1 percent of the annual target.

Provincial leader urges to timely detect enterprises in debt of labors’ salary and social insurance to protect their rights

(BGO) – On July 2, Vice Chairman of the Bac Giang provincial People’s Committee (PPC) Le Anh Duong chaired a meeting to discuss the solution to protect the labors’ rights in the enterprises which encounter difficulties in production or hire the factory and owe the salary, social insurance and other benefits.

Support enterprises in urgent labor recruitment

(BGO) – On June 24, the Job Service Center in Bac Giang province  held the first ever recruitment festival to support the enterprises on urgent demand of labor recruitment.

Source: VNA