Minister of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs Dao Ngoc Dung speaks at the session (Photo: VNA) Da Nang (VNA) - The National Assembly’s Social Affairs Committee convened its 11th plenary session in the central province of Da Nang on October 9 in preparation for the upcoming sixth meeting of the 14th legislature. The committee will review the Government’s reports on the two-year implementation of the NA’s Decision No. 76/2014/QH13 on promoting sustainable poverty reduction by 2020, the realisation of the national target of gender equality in 2017 and the ratification of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement on Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) with contents regarding employment, trade union and health care. It will also mull over the draft law on prevention and combat of harmful effects of alcohol and the management and use of health insurance fund in 2017, among others, Nguyen Thuy Anh, Chairwoman of the committee, said in her opening remarks. … [Read more...] about NA’s Social Affairs Committee talks sustainable poverty reduction
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Pension, social allowance to be increased
People are completing procedures to receive pension and social allowance. — VNA/VNS Photo Minh Quyết Viet Nam News HÀ NỘI — Pension and monthly allowance will be increased by 6.92 per cent from July, and more than three million people are eligible for the revised pension and allowance, according to a draft decree by the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MOLISA). In the proposal, people who will receive the increased pension and allowance include former public officials, civil servants, labourers, military personnel, police, and cipher workers, who are entitled to a monthly pension. In addition, seven groups will receive the increased salary, including commune officials, persons who are receiving monthly allowances for loss of working capacity, rubber workers receiving monthly allowances, and those who are receiving monthly allowances for labour accidents or occupational diseases. More than three million people will receive the … [Read more...] about Pension, social allowance to be increased
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Twenty-seven more communes and wards this year join family medical practice A health staff member takes blood for testing at An Hòa ward health station in Cần Thơ City’s Ninh Kiều District. Source http://soytecantho.vn The Department of Health in the Mekong Delta city of Cần Thơ this year plans to expand a model of family medical practice clinics to 27 more communes and wards. Family medical practice clinics aim to provide comprehensive and continuous health care services to each local individual and family in order to reduce overcrowding of patients at city or central-level hospitals. These clinics are located at health stations in communes and wards. Each commune or ward has one health station. Cần Thơ aims to equip more than 80 per cent of its 85 health stations with these clinics by 2020. According to Dr Bùi Thị Lệ Phi, the department’s head, the city now has 18 commune-based health stations with family … [Read more...] about Social News 5/4 (Hourly Updated)
Short-term social insurance required for foreign workers
Short-term social insurance required for foreign workersThuy Dung Foreign workers are seen at a construction site in Vietnam - PHOTO: TL HANOI – Foreign workers in Vietnam should buy short-term social insurance products like sickness, maternity, workplace accidents and occupational diseases in the immediate future, and will have to get long-term social insurance products, including pension and death insurance after 2020 or 2022, according to a draft Government decree. Under the 2014 social insurance law which came into force on January 1, social insurance is compulsory to foreign workers in Vietnam. However, such a regulation has yet to be applied as foreign business associations in Vietnam have objected to the rule and a guiding decree has not been issued. Many business associations and experts have previously proposed applying short-term or voluntary social insurance to foreign workers. Tran Hai Nam, deputy director of the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social … [Read more...] about Short-term social insurance required for foreign workers
Compulsory social insurance for expats to go ahead despite firms’ concerns
Viet Nam News Thu Hà – Mai Hiên HÀ NỘI — A controversial rule requiring foreign workers in Việt Nam to make social insurance payments is likely to be put into practice soon, several months after the Government’s issuance of a decree to implement the new provision of the Law on Social Insurance 2014, which came into effect on January 1 this year. The chorus of varied and strong opinions from the business community and related ministries and sectors has delayed the issuance. However, Trần HảiNam, deputy head of the Department for Social Insurance under the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA), said a draft decree had been sent to the Government, after getting the nod from the National Assembly Standing Committee in mid-March. Nam said the draft is expected to be ratified in about a month. The draft decree is expected to narrow the number of foreigners affected by the compulsory social insurance … [Read more...] about Compulsory social insurance for expats to go ahead despite firms’ concerns