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After 25 days of implementing a Resolution from the National Assembly on the payment of support for employees who have submitted unemployment insurance claims, nearly 359,000 have received support from the Unemployment Insurance Fund totaling more than VND1 trillion ($42.7 million). Twenty-eight localities have completed all payments.

Some 153,523 jobs were created in Hanoi in the first eight months of 2022, representing 96 per cent of the annual plan and 38,728, or 33.7 per cent, more jobs than were created in the first eight months of 2021. The Hanoi Department of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs has forecast that the recruitment needs of businesses will be focused on office, sales, and production staff, electronic component assembly, and other fields.

According to a survey by Manpower Group Vietnam, 57 per cent of enterprises face difficulties in recruiting high-quality human resources. The Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA) has said that compared to other countries in the region and the world, Vietnam has a low percentage of trained workers, at just 26.2 per cent.

According to the Hanoi Department of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs, the city has created more than 153,000 jobs since the beginning of the year, reaching 96 per cent of the annual plan and up 33.7 per cent against the same period of 2021.

Many new policies on labor and wages come into effect in September, such as a regulation on a two-day holiday for National Day, regulations on working time and rest periods for employees who operate, maintain, or repair gas distribution pipelines and gas works, and a pilot on work and vocational guidance and training for inmates outside of prison.

The Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs has noted an imbalance in supply of and demand for workers in certain localities and industries in Vietnam, with the needs of businesses not being met as they focus on economic recovery.