Illustrative image (Source: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) – Vietnam now records over 18 millionunofficial workers who account for 57.2 percent of non-agricultural workforce,according to a report announced at a seminar held in Hanoi on October 4.
As a joint work among the General Statistics Office (GSO) ofVietnam, the International Labour Organisation, the Ministry of Labour,Invalids and Social Affairs’ Institute of Labour Science and Social Affairs,the report polled nearly 20,000 households each month in 63 cities andprovinces nationwide from 2007. However, data about unofficial workforce wereadded into survey questionnaires from 2014.
Unofficial workers are known to have unstable jobs, lacklabour contracts or work on verbal contracts to earn low income. Theiremployers operate on micro or small scale, lack business registration or failto pay social and health insurance or other welfares to workers.
Roughly 60 percent of them live in rural areas in the Mekongand Red River Deltas, the north central and coastal central regions. Meanwhilein the northern mountainous mid-land and the Central Highlands regions, workersmainly live on agriculture and forestry.
Unofficial workers in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City make up morethan 20 percent of the total nationwide. They mostly work in manufacturing andprocessing, construction and wholesale-retail, motorbike and automobile repair,accounting for roughly 70 percent of the total. It is followed by lodging and cateringservices (around 11 percent).
Their monthly salary averages 4.4 million VND (192 USD) perperson compared to 6.7 million VND in the formal sector. Up to 97.9 percent ofunofficial workers lack social insurance while 80.5 percent of workers in theformal sector have compulsory social insurance.
In order to reduce vulnerability of unofficial workers, Directorof the Institute of Labour Science and Social Affairs Doan Quang Vinh suggestedadopting specific action plans to encourage business households to apply forregistration and provide them with all possible support in capital, technology,consumption and workforce training.
Nguyen Thi Xuan Mai, head of the GSO’s Population and LabourStatistics Department, said the State should encourage unofficial workers tojoin voluntary social insurance via aids.-VNA
As a joint work among the General Statistics Office (GSO) ofVietnam, the International Labour Organisation, the Ministry of Labour,Invalids and Social Affairs’ Institute of Labour Science and Social Affairs,the report polled nearly 20,000 households each month in 63 cities andprovinces nationwide from 2007. However, data about unofficial workforce wereadded into survey questionnaires from 2014.
Unofficial workers are known to have unstable jobs, lacklabour contracts or work on verbal contracts to earn low income. Theiremployers operate on micro or small scale, lack business registration or failto pay social and health insurance or other welfares to workers.
Roughly 60 percent of them live in rural areas in the Mekongand Red River Deltas, the north central and coastal central regions. Meanwhilein the northern mountainous mid-land and the Central Highlands regions, workersmainly live on agriculture and forestry.
Unofficial workers in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City make up morethan 20 percent of the total nationwide. They mostly work in manufacturing andprocessing, construction and wholesale-retail, motorbike and automobile repair,accounting for roughly 70 percent of the total. It is followed by lodging and cateringservices (around 11 percent).
Their monthly salary averages 4.4 million VND (192 USD) perperson compared to 6.7 million VND in the formal sector. Up to 97.9 percent ofunofficial workers lack social insurance while 80.5 percent of workers in theformal sector have compulsory social insurance.
In order to reduce vulnerability of unofficial workers, Directorof the Institute of Labour Science and Social Affairs Doan Quang Vinh suggestedadopting specific action plans to encourage business households to apply forregistration and provide them with all possible support in capital, technology,consumption and workforce training.
Nguyen Thi Xuan Mai, head of the GSO’s Population and LabourStatistics Department, said the State should encourage unofficial workers tojoin voluntary social insurance via aids.-VNA
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