These days, while families gather to celebrate Lunar New Year, thousands of workers across the country are still working hard at construction sites and important national projects.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has paid great attention to this workforce when he was present at many key projects to inspect and encourage workers and laborers to celebrate Tet right at their workplace.
Not only paying attention to workers who are working through Tet at construction sites, on January 26, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh also took time to visit Ngoc Lac district, Thanh Hoa to visit and wish a happy New Year to union members and workers in this locality.
Previously, on January 25, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh signed and issued Official Dispatch No. 06/CD-TTg dated January 25, 2025, requesting localities to proactively implement active measures to care for the lives and pay salaries and bonuses to workers and laborers in accordance with the regime, promptly, and in accordance with regulations.
The Prime Minister requested to ensure that all workers and laborers have Tet and continue to be attached to the construction site during Tet, with the spirit of not leaving workers and laborers lonely on the construction site, especially lacking money for Tet.
In fact, over the years, there have been rare cases of businesses and contractors being late in paying salaries, bonuses and welfare benefits to workers working through Tet.
However, the presence and direction of the Prime Minister still has a special significance. It not only reminds investors and contractors to fulfill their responsibilities to workers correctly and better, but also helps them consolidate their reputation and create a solid welfare foundation to retain quality workers.
Not being lonely here does not stop at the spiritual level - visiting, encouraging, Tet gifts - but also financial responsibility must be complete and timely.
However, besides ensuring that workers “do not lack money” or “are not lonely”, a vital issue is ensuring labor safety.
Celebrating Tet at the construction site, with higher income than usual, but just a moment of carelessness, a technical flaw or lack of protective equipment, accidents can easily happen.
Once safety is ignored, all efforts to care for and financial incentives become meaningless. In the past, we have witnessed many heartbreaking incidents happening right before Tet, turning joy into anxiety, leaving long-term consequences for families and society.
Therefore, localities need to monitor not only salaries and bonuses, but also living conditions, occupational accident prevention, and fire prevention and fighting.
Investors, project management boards and local authorities tighten protection procedures and comply with safety regulations, from operating machinery and equipment to arranging shifts and working teams scientifically and reasonably.
When workers make the construction site their home, the Prime Minister's presence to visit and encourage them, along with instructions to not let them be "lonely", "lack money for Tet" and ensure absolutely safe working conditions is truly the most meaningful gift!
