Summarizing 10 years of implementing Directive No. 16 of the Secretariat

On the morning of August 25, the Central Steering Committee on reviewing 10 years of implementing Directive No. 16-CT/TW on strengthening the Party’s leadership in sending workers and experts to work abroad organized an online conference to summarize 10 years of its implementation. Mr. Dao Ngoc Dung, Member of the Party Central Committee, Minister of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs, Deputy Head of the Steering Committee and Mr. Do Ngoc An, Deputy Head of the Central Economic Commission, Deputy Head of the Steering Committee co-chaired the conference.

Delegates attending the conference in Lang Son province

Attending the conference in Lang Son province were Mr. Doan Thu Ha, Member of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee, Vice Chairwoman of the Provincial People’s Committee; Mr. Dinh Huu Hoc, Member of Provincial Party Committee, Vice Chairman of Provincial People’s Council; leaders of relevant departments, commissions and sectors.

On May 8, 2012, the Secretariat of the 11th Party Central Committee issued Directive 16-CT/TW on strengthening the Party’s leadership in sending workers and experts to work abroad (Directive No.16). In the past 10 years, the Party committees and authorities at all levels have popularized and strictly implemented it.

Accordingly, the legal system and policies on sending Vietnamese people to work abroad have been amended, supplemented and basically conformed to international laws and practices. Programs and plans are issued in accordance with the specific situation and condition each year and each period, contributing to sending laborers to work abroad. By 2022, the whole country has 451 organizations and businesses providing services to send workers to work abroad, 2 times higher than at the time of issuance of the Directive. The market receiving foreign workers is expanding and developing, from 9 markets in 2013 to 25 markets now; sending more than 1 million workers and experts to work abroad, up nearly 40% compared to the average period before the directive was issued; creating jobs for about 7-10% of the labor force increase every year.

In Lang Son, in recent years, the Provincial Party Committee has focused on leading and directing the comprehensive development of all aspects of work and achieved important results, in which the work of sending workers to work abroad has received great attention and as a result, the number of people going to work abroad has increased year by year. Specifically, in the period 2013-2022, the whole province has 1,834 people working abroad under contracts, of which 1,735 workers are ethnic minorities, poor households in remote and isolated areas and demobilized soldiers.

Within the conference, the delegates focused on discussing and clarifying the achieved results, shortcomings, limitations, difficulties and proposed solutions in the coming time.

Concluding the conference, the Minister of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs affirmed that sending workers and experts to work abroad was a right policy and an inevitable trend of countries in the development process.

He suggested that ministries, sectors and localities should consider the management of Vietnamese laborers working abroad as an important and regular task and continue to raise awareness of the Party committees and authorities, officials and civil servants in performing this work. In which, it was necessary to promote the propagation and dissemination of the law and coordination in organization and management; at the same time, to strengthen inspection and supervision in order to strictly control organizations, individuals and businesses that violate regulation on management of sending Vietnamese workers and experts to work abroad.

He requested relevant levels and sectors to review and complete the legal system, to focus on negotiating with other countries on this work. Along with that, they were asked to focus on improving the capacity and efficiency of state management, building a flexible, modern and sustainable labor market.