The Transport Investment Cooperation and Import-Export Corporation(Tracimexco) of the Ministry of Transportation, has been asked torecruit 60 trainees for Japan ’s Maruai Group Co., Ltd. from now toOctober.
For Tracimexco, the order, which was also accompanied by commitments offull-time work and a minimum monthly pay of 700 USD per person, is thelargest it has received for a year.
Tracimexco has sent over 15,000 Vietnamese labourers to the MiddleEast, Western European countries, the Republic of Korea, Japan, Libyaand the United Arab Emirates since 1980.
Other labour supply companies-- Suleco and Sovilaco--have beencontracted to recruit trainees for Japan, which employed 2,678Vietnamese workers in the past six months, a figure that places Japanas the third largest importer of Vietnamese workers.
Taiwan , which has recruited 8,752 Vietnamese workers in the pastsix months making it the biggest labour importer in the period, hasplaced an order with the Emis Labour Supply Company in Ho Chi Minh Cityto recruit 80 workers for the remaining months of this year.
In the meantime, the Isalco Labour Supply Company said it is currentlyenrolling 50 labourers for Malaysia, a market that hired 1,237Vietnamese workers in the past six months. The Malaysian partners havepledged to treat Vietnamese workers the same as they do their Malaysianpeers.
According to the Ministry of Labour, War Invalids and Social Affairs,Vietnam sent 31,000 workers abroad in the past six months, a drop of 28percent against the corresponding period last year./.