Barriers to Southern workers
On March 30, in Can Tho City, the Center for Overseas Labor (Colab) - Ministry of Home Affairs in coordination with the Department of Home Affairs of Can Tho City organized the Opening Ceremony of the Non-Profit Program Training Facility for workers going to work abroad and the Opening of the first training course here for 186 workers participating in the IM Japan Program and the EPS Program.
Sharing about the goal of establishing a training facility in Can Tho, Mr. Dang Huy Hong - Director of the Overseas Labor Center emphasized: Programs to send workers to work abroad in a non-profit form have outstanding advantages in low costs, working conditions and good income. However, in the past time, recruitment and training activities mainly took place in Hanoi, inadvertently creating barriers in terms of distance and travel costs for workers in the South. The opening of a training facility in Can Tho is a solution to remove this difficulty, bringing the State's employment and social security policies closer to the people, especially policy beneficiaries in the Southwest region.
Mr. Dang Huy Hong committed to operating the facility in the spirit of "real work - real learning". Colab will closely coordinate with the Department of Home Affairs and the Provincial Employment Service Centers to recruit publicly and transparently; organize serious training, close to reception requirements. Not only focusing on foreign languages and professional skills, the facility will strengthen the training of qualities, ethics, and industrial style, contributing to enhancing the prestige and image of Vietnamese people in the international arena.
Implementing the "human resource cycle" strategy
Speaking at the ceremony, Vice Chairman of Can Tho City People's Committee Nguyen Van Khoi shared that opening a non-profit program training facility for workers going to work abroad in Can Tho City will open up good job opportunities in Japan and Korea for Can Tho workers in particular and the Mekong Delta region in general, ensuring employment policies, social security, contributing to strengthening training cooperation and human resource development for the city in the new development phase.
Deputy Minister of Home Affairs Vu Chien Thang said that in the atmosphere of the whole country urgently implementing the Resolution of the 14th National Congress and the Strategic Resolutions of the Central Government, the Ministry of Home Affairs has focused resources on coordinating with ministries, departments, branches and localities to implement tasks to complete the goals assigned by the Party and the Government.
In which, the ministry identifies programs to send workers to work abroad in non-profit forms, implementing international agreements, as a practical solution to create jobs, increase income, and at the same time be associated with training and sustainable human resource development.
The Deputy Minister requested relevant agencies to focus on building facilities in Can Tho into "regional training facilities", effectively implementing the "human resource cycle" strategy: Training - sending - working abroad - promoting the resources of workers after returning home; thereby contributing to the sustainable development of the Mekong Delta region.
Colab is a non-business unit under the Ministry of Home Affairs, the only agency assigned to send workers to work abroad under non-profit international agreement programs (such as the Korean EPS Program, IM Japan Program). The operation of the training facility in Can Tho is expected to create a synchronous chain of solutions from source creation, training to job support after returning home, bringing practical and long-term benefits to workers in the Southern region.
