Minister pledges to create all conditions to promote Vietnam-UAE labor cooperation

(Dan Tri) - "The UAE Minister of Human Resources and I are committed to simplifying all procedures to promote human resources cooperation," said Minister Dao Ngoc Dung, hoping to open a new chapter in Vietnam - UAE labor cooperation.

The Vietnam - UAE Business Dialogue Forum on Labor Cooperation was organized by the Department of Overseas Labor Management (Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs) with the direction of relevant units in the capital of Abu Dhabi (UAE), during the official visit of Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh to this country. The forum was attended by large corporations and enterprises of the UAE as well as Vietnamese labor dispatching enterprises that have been operating for many years in the Middle East market. "I commit to UAE enterprises to create maximum conditions." Here, enterprises of both sides discussed and agreed on specific contents about the needs, types of labor received, requirements for workers (regarding foreign language proficiency, skills and experience, etc.).

Minister Dao Ngoc Dung talks with UAE business representatives (Photo: Duc Thuan).

Working conditions, income and welfare regimes, labor management during working time in the UAE, the ability of Vietnamese enterprises to supply labor... were also issues discussed by the two sides. Attending the Forum, Minister of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs Dao Ngoc Dung highly appreciated the cooperation and connection efforts of enterprises of the two countries in recent times. According to the Minister, the coordination of organizing the Forum with high openness on the sidelines of high-level meetings between leaders of Vietnam and the UAE is very meaningful. Informing about the general cooperation situation between the two countries, Minister Dao Ngoc Dung emphasized the important role of the UAE - one of Vietnam's important economic partners in the Middle East market. This is a country with a strongly developing economy with many diverse and pioneering fields in the world, with high openness, associated with digital transformation, green transformation, circular economy, sharing economy, artificial intelligence... According to Minister Dao Ngoc Dung, the UAE is a potential market where workers in general and Vietnamese workers in particular can seize the opportunity to work, study, acquire highly specialized skills and knowledge to improve and develop themselves, and have a high income in the future. In that spirit, Minister Dao Ngoc Dung emphasized that the state management agencies of the two sides are always ready to accompany businesses, creating the most favorable conditions possible for businesses of both sides to connect, cooperate and develop, minimizing administrative procedures related to sending and receiving workers. Raising the question of "how to promote human resource development between the two countries?", Minister Dung analyzed the context of Vietnam as a developing country with the 34th largest economy in the world.

Minister Dao Ngoc Dung pledged to create maximum conditions to promote labor cooperation between Vietnam and the UAE (Photo: Duc Thuan).

Vietnam currently has a population of 100 million and is in the golden population stage with a workforce of about 54 million people. Minister Dung emphasized that if we know how to take advantage of this factor, it will create conditions to help the country develop. "What fields are needed, what types of workers, what income levels and living conditions, how to train, foster and learn foreign languages, the two sides need to frankly discuss with each other. As for State management, I pledge to UAE businesses to create maximum conditions," Minister Dung emphasized. He said that in a previous meeting with the UAE Minister of Human Resources, the two Ministers pledged to simplify all procedures and create the best conditions to promote labor cooperation between the two countries. If there are any problems, the two Ministers will call directly to discuss and resolve them together. With this forum, Minister Dung hopes to open a new chapter in labor cooperation between Vietnam and the UAE. Promoting high-quality labor resources to work in the UAE Labor cooperation is also one of the important contents included in the Vietnam - UAE joint statement during the official visit of Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh.

Enterprises from Vietnam and the UAE listen to Minister Dao Ngoc Dung share about the orientation of labor cooperation (Photo: Duc Thuan).

Accordingly, the two sides pledged to effectively implement the Memorandum of Understanding on cooperation in the field of human resources, promote recruitment efforts, vocational skills training, foreign languages, and disseminate UAE laws and culture to Vietnamese workers, especially high-quality workers working in the UAE or in countries/territories where UAE enterprises have investment projects or are contracting for construction works. Previously, in a bilateral meeting with UAE Minister of Human Resources Abdulrahman Abdulmannan Al-Awar, Minister of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs Dao Ngoc Dung outlined an overview when the UAE has a great demand for labor resources, while Vietnam has abundant human resources with many potentials and outstanding advantages. However, in recent times, the number of Vietnamese workers working in the UAE has not yet met the needs and potentials of both sides. Minister Abdulrahman Abdulmannan Al-Awar affirmed that the country is ready to review regulations on receiving, managing, and using labor as well as adjusting policies on wages, bonuses, benefits, and care for workers, in order to effectively attract Vietnamese workers to work in the UAE. Vietnam began sending workers to work in the UAE in 1995 - 2 years after the two countries established diplomatic relations.

Minister Dao Ngoc Dung took a photo with UAE business representatives (Photo: Duc Thuan).

During the period 2004-2007, the number of Vietnamese workers in the UAE was about 10,000 people. The Vietnamese Ambassador to the UAE said in mid-2023 that the UAE President wanted to receive and increase the number of Vietnamese workers in the UAE to 100,000 people in many fields and professions. According to statistics from the Vietnamese Embassy in the UAE, there are currently about 4,500 Vietnamese workers living and working in the UAE, mainly in construction, mechanics, restaurant services, hotels, beauty care... Of which, the number going through businesses providing services to send workers to work abroad is about 3,000 people.

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