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Dong Nai: 500 free tickets to send poor migrant workers home for Tet

The Labour Federation of southern Dong Nai province will offer 500 free coach tickets, worth 1.2 million VND (52.8 USD) each, for poor migrant workers to go back home for the Tet (Lunar New Year) holiday.
Dong Nai: 500 free tickets to send poor migrant workers home for Tet ảnh 1The Labour Federation of southern Dong Nai province will offer 500 free coach tickets for poor migrant workers to go back home for the Tet (Lunar New Year) holiday. Illustrative image. (Photo: VNA)

Dong Nai (VNA) – The Labour Federation ofsouthern Dong Nai province will offer 500 free coach tickets, worth 1.2 millionVND (52.8 USD) each, for poor migrant workers to go back home for the Tet(Lunar New Year) holiday.

The labour federation will also present 2,000 giftpackages, worth 500,000 VND (22 USD) each, to impoverished labourers.

The free tickets will be given to workers from northernand central provinces who are living in difficulties and have not affordedreturning home for Tet for many years, said the provincial labour federation’sVice Chairman Tang Quoc Lap.

The tickets will be distributed to districts andtownships that have a large number of industrial parks and migrant workers,such as Bien Hoa city, Trang Bom and Long Thanh districts, he added.

According to Chairman of the Labour Federation of TrangBom district Le Duc Thuy, the district chapter has also prepared 1,500 giftpackages and 200 free coach tickets to give to disadvantaged workers.

This year, wages and Tet bonus of workers in Dong Naihave been significantly improved. Those working for FDI enterprises received7.7 million VND (338.8 USD) in bonus in average each for the biggest publicholiday of the year, compared to 5.8 million VND (255.2 USD) in 2017.

Meanwhile, the average Tet bonus of domestic privatefirms’ employees rose from 4.5 million VND (198 USD) per person to 7.3 millionVND (321.2 USD) per person this year.-VNA
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