Vietnam creates 1.64 mln jobs in 2016

Ms Lan said this is the third consecutive year Vietnam has sent more than 100,000 workers abroad. Regarding labor export issue, Viet Nam inked a Memorandum of Understanding on labor cooperation with the Republic of Korea, Malaysia and Thailand.The Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs will synchronously launch a number of measures to increase labor exports to Japan, Taiwan and China.  In addition, the country provided vocational training for 1.974 million people, increasing the rate of trained labors to 53 percent of workforce last year. The unemployment rate stood at 2.3 percent in 2016.
Reports from 63 localities nationwide showed that 70 percent of enterprises planned 2017 New Year bonus for their employees with average amount of 1.253 million Vietnamese dong (56.19 U.S. dollars) each, up 6.2 percent year-on-year.
For the Lunar New Year, some 83.5 percent of the country's enterprises have planned bonuses, with average amount of one month salary at around 4.9 million Vietnamese dong (219.73 U.S. dollars), down 4 percent year-on-year, said the ministry. The highest cash bonus awarded to a worker by a private business in Ho Chi Minh City is 1 billion Vietnamese dong  while the lowest is 50,000 Vietnamese dong.