More jobs created nationwide

In 2009, Hà Nam will recruit 6,000 local laborers to work in the province’s industrial parks.

The province targets to charm more enterprises from the Republic of Korea, Taiwan, and Japan.

So far, Hà Nam’s total number of regular workers in industrial parks is 14,095, doubling the figure in early 2006.

The southern city of Cần Thơ plans to generate jobs for 46,000 people this year. In January only, Cần Thơ created 3,500 new jobs.

The city will spend VND 26 billion on job generation and vocational training programs.

It has also outlined plans to speed up employment promotion, expand labor export markets; restore many handicraft villages, and develop agricultural services in rural areas to draw more laborers.

In early 2009, in the central province of Quảng Nam, many enterprises recruited about 1,500 local people.

The Department of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs of Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu pledged to prioritize labor-intensive projects in order to create 32,500 new jobs in 2009.

To fulfill the goal, it will expand vocational training for young people, encourage agricultural laborers to move to non-agricultural industries, and shake hand with investors to generate more jobs.

An Giang has just kick-started its social security plan 2009-2010 in order to ensure safety and employment for all vulnerable groups. The province determines to popularize voluntary and unemployment insurance in 2009.

It also considers measures to finance laborers in generating jobs by themselves, fund vocational training programs and provide assistance to laborers who may lose their job.

By Hạnh Phương