At the international seminar. (Photo: VNA)The seminar was held by the Ministry of Labour,Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA), in conjunction with the Vietnam GeneralConfederation of Labour, the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and theInternational Labour Organisation (ILO).
According to the MoLISA and the ILO, by the end of thesecond quarter of this year, Vietnam had 51.1 million labourers, of whom only26.1 percent underwent training.
The numbers revealed the urgent need to providetraining and improve skills for Vietnamese employees, especially in the contextof the COVID-19 pandemic that has hindered their job access.
The delegates looked into impacts of the pandemic aswell as the fourth industrial revolution on Vietnam’s market in both short andlong terms, and how to equip local workers with skills to adapt to theindustrial revolution.
Vietnam is striving to advance its vocationaleducation to the level of ASEAN-4 countries by 2030, and to the level of G20countries by 2045.
To that end, the delegates said relevant ministries andagencies should draw up mechanisms and implement policies to raise labourers’ skills and better forecast the labour demand./.
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