VN labor market:
Unemployment rate lowest, labor cost cheapest
Vietnam is among
the nations with the lowest unemployment rates on the globe, but the number
of young jobless laborers is triple the domestic unemployment rate.
The International Labor Organization
(ILO) on January 21 released a report showing the slight increase in the
unemployment rate in
ILO’s Guy Ryder said the surveys have
found the satisfactory job prospect in
The highest job growth rates were
seen in the foreign invested sector (4.8 percent) over 2012. The majority of
jobs were created in the service, industry and construction sectors.
Vietnamese labor cost is equal to 1/3
of Chinese
One of the reasons that made Samsung
Electronics to move its factories from
A survey by the Japan External Trade
Organization (JETRO) in 2012 showed that a worker in
Lee Jung Soon from the South Korean
Trade and Investment Promotion Chamber said he can see the growing tendency
of foreign investors relocating their factories to
Working conditions bad
However, Vietnamese workers at
Samsung’s and Nokia’s factories now have to work in unsafe conditions.
In fact, the working environment at
the factories still can meet the requirements stipulated in VSCP, the
national standards. However, the standards are believed to be out of dated
which have not been updated for the last 20 years, while resonant impacts of
the environmental factors on workers’ health have not been considered.
Working in unsafe environments, a lot
of Vietnamese workers have been found as being infected with the diseases
such as occupational deafness, eye pain, cancer, miscarriage, and stillbirth.
A worker, who is in charge of testing
telephones, complained that he has to test 76 products a day and he suffers
the tinnitus during his working shift.
Another worker complained she usually
feels the eyestrain after eight months of working at the factory, though her
eyesight was very strong when she had health examined before going to work.
Young workers stay jobless, civil
servants plentiful
The ILO’s report showed that the
unemployment rate among young laborers was triple that of the domestic
unemployment rate in the fourth quarter of 2013, at 5.95 percent.
The economic recession has led to the
high unemployment rate. Official reports showed that 60,737 businesses got
dissolved in 2013, an increase of 11.9 percent over 2012.
Though the number of newly set up
businesses was higher than the number of dissolved businesses, there are not
many businesses which can create many jobs.
While the number of young laborers
who cannot find jobs has been on the rise, the state has to pay a high number
of civil servants, reportedly reached 280,000 by early 2014.
Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan
Phuc commented that 30 percent of the civil servants are unnecessary for
state agencies.
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Chủ Nhật, 26 tháng 1, 2014
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