Nearly 125,000 people have been employed
According to the Hanoi Department of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs (DOLISA), in the first 6 months of 2024, the entire city of Hanoi has employed 124,920 workers, achieving 75.7% of the annual plan.
Among them, about 37,300 workers were employed through loans from the city's budget entrusted to the Social Policy Bank for lending to the poor and other policy beneficiaries, with a total amount of 2,130 billion VND.
Additionally, over 2,200 workers were sent to work abroad, more than 76,600 people were provided with job introductions by enterprises, and the remaining through other forms.
In the first 6 months, the Hanoi Employment Service Center (under Hanoi DOLISA) organized 128 job transaction sessions with 3,746 units and enterprises participating, with a total recruitment and enrollment demand of 74,393 people. As a result, 27,177 workers were interviewed, and 8,735 workers were recruited at the sessions.
Besides job placement for workers, in the first 6 months, Hanoi DOLISA decided to grant unemployment insurance benefits to 35,922 cases, with a support amount of 1,088 billion VND. The number of workers receiving unemployment insurance decreased by 12.9% compared to the same period in 2023. 100% of the cases requesting unemployment insurance were advised on new jobs, including vocational training support for 385 people, with an amount of 1.5 billion VND.
Strengthening labor supply-demand connection
According to the Hanoi Employment Service Center, the number of workers receiving unemployment insurance decreased due to the continued recovery and development of Hanoi's labor market.
The stable socio-economic situation helps enterprises quickly stabilize production and business, actively recruit workers to serve new orders, and expand production scale...
To support the recovery and development of the labor market, Mr. Vu Quang Thanh - Deputy Director of the Hanoi Employment Service Center, said that in the coming time, the Center will continue to implement job connection solutions, providing full services to support enterprises and workers in finding personnel and jobs.
The Center will form a network to collect, process, and provide labor market information from the City to the grassroots level, especially enhancing online job transaction activities, and promoting the application of technology in labor supply-demand connection.
In the coming time, the Center also plans to organize specialized job transaction sessions, including thematic sessions by industry and labor groups, sessions for disabled workers, online sessions with provinces nationwide, along with mobile sessions, thereby creating more job connection opportunities for a large number of workers in the Capital area.
According to the General Statistics Office, the number of employed people in the second quarter of 2024 increased compared to the previous quarter and the same period last year, but the informal labor force still accounts for a large proportion, making up more than 3/5 of the total employed labor force in the country.
In the first 6 months of 2024, the number of informal workers was 33.4 million people, the rate of informal employment was 65%, an increase of 0.2 percentage points compared to the same period in 2023. Although the socio-economic situation has improved, and the number of employed workers has increased compared to the same period last year, the rate of informal employment is still quite high. This shows that the labor market has gradually recovered but is not yet sustainable.
