Ho Chi Minh City vocational training exceeds plan in 2023

On December 5, the Department of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs of Ho Chi Minh City held a November industry conference.

TPHCM đào tạo nghề vượt kế hoạch năm 2023 - 1 — Mr. Le Van Thinh, Director of the Department of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs of Ho Chi Minh City, chaired the conference (Photo: Tung Nguyen).

Representative of the Department of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs of Ho Chi Minh City, Ms. Tran Thi Thanh Hang, Chief of Office of the Department, briefly reported on the results of implementing tasks in November and the first 11 months of the year, and the direction and tasks for December.

Accordingly, as of November 2023, the number of trained workers is 118,685/117,000 people, reaching 101.44% of the annual plan. Of which, university degree or higher is 6,461 people; college degree is 17,714 people; intermediate level is 5,085 people; elementary and regular level is 89,425 people.

Currently, the total number of trained workers in the city is nearly 4.5 million people, accounting for 87.27% of the total number of people of working age, an increase of 0.82% over the same period.

Up to now, vocational training enrollment has reached 317,439 people, exceeding the 2023 plan (315,000 people), an increase of 11.61% over the same period.

Vocational training for rural workers reached 4,761 people, 117.56% of the yearly plan (4,050 people), up 25.32% over the same period.

From the beginning of 2023 to present, economic sectors have attracted and created jobs for 291,985/300,000 people (reaching 97.33% of the annual plan), of which 131,865/140,000 new jobs were created (reaching 94.19% of the annual plan).

Enterprises operating in sending workers to work abroad have sent 8,583 people to work abroad in the markets of Japan, Korea, Taiwan, etc.

It is estimated that by the end of 2023, the set plan will be completed; specifically, jobs will be created for 305,000/300,000 people (101.66% of the annual plan), including 141,000/140,000 new jobs (100.71% of the annual plan); the urban unemployment rate is 3.9% (the plan is to limit it to 4%).

However, the Department of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs of Ho Chi Minh City also assessed that the decline in the world economy has affected the production and business activities of domestic enterprises as well as the labor market.

Faced with that situation, the Department has proactively implemented activities to connect labor supply and demand to create new jobs and limit unemployment.

In the last month of the year, the Department of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs will closely monitor developments in labor relations to promptly guide businesses to comply with regulations.

In particular, this is a sensitive time before the Lunar New Year. Therefore, the Department's leaders requested relevant units to closely monitor the situation of salary and bonus payment for the Lunar New Year of Giap Thin 2024 to stabilize labor relations in enterprises.

Concluding the conference, Mr. Le Van Thinh, Director of the Department of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs of Ho Chi Minh City, highly appreciated the results of the work of the units over the past 11 months. Up to now, the Department has completed 68/69 programs, plans and targets assigned by the City People's Committee; the contents of the sector assigned by the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs during the year have also been completed.

TPHCM đào tạo nghề vượt kế hoạch năm 2023 - 2 — Mr. Le Van Thinh rewards units with good achievements in November (Photo: Tung Nguyen).

In the field of labor and employment, Mr. Le Van Thinh requested relevant departments to strengthen connections and manage the labor situation of enterprises in the city.

The Director of the Department of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs of Ho Chi Minh City said that a specialized agency that only surveys and grasps the labor situation in a few thousand large enterprises is not enough to represent the whole picture of labor and employment in a city with more than 250,000 enterprises, not to mention hundreds of thousands of units and individual business households...

Mr. Thinh directed units to find solutions to expand labor management capacity on a larger scale, to understand the labor issues of enterprises to understand the current labor supply and demand situation. From there, the labor sector can determine the upcoming key tasks, organize job exchanges, and provide vocational training to suit the market...

In particular, Mr. Le Van Thinh emphasized that the administrative reform and digital transformation work has been actively participated in by the entire labor sector of the city and has initially achieved many results, with evaluation scores increasing. However, he still pointed out that there is still a part of civil servants and public employees who do not have a good attitude when interacting with people and businesses.

The Director of the Department of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs of Ho Chi Minh City requested that units and departments that have contact with people must install surveillance cameras, issue clear and transparent monitoring and handling procedures so that everyone complies, and improve their attitude when contacting and handling work for people.

"At the citizen reception department, a guide can be arranged to show people what they want to do, who to meet, where... This person can also monitor the attitude of the citizen reception staff to see if it is good or not. If the supervisor does not detect it but people report it, and the surveillance camera detects it, then the responsibility belongs to the supervisor," Mr. Thinh suggested.

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