Blowback:  Vietnamese workers erect scaffolding at a construction site in the The government has always been keen to export labor since it meant providing jobs for more people, jobs that could not be generated at home, but a failure to properly manage the system is coming home to roost. The policy is focused almost entirely on sending workers abroad, and nothing is done to ensure they return once their contracts expire and their skills are used back home. Many workers who go abroad for jobs overstay their visas since they fear they will not get jobs if they return to In the early 2000’s But from 2009 the situation deteriorated as demand slumped amid the global economic slowdown and large number of Vietnamese workers began to overstay their visas. The International Labor Organization said It is not as if there are no policies in place. The labor departments of provinces and cities have the task of creating a database of workers going abroad and providing it to job centers. But this has not been done anywhere, the Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs admitted. Closing doors The high rate of Vietnamese workers overstaying visas has caused many markets to shun the country. The South Korean government last year decided not to extend its Employment Permit System to Many Vietnamese in Last year only 9,000 workers went to According to the ministry’s Overseas Labor Management Department, some 57,000 Vietnamese workers are in The department’s head, Nguyen Ngoc Quynh, admitted that the government has not done much to reduce the number of overstayers in foreign countries, including Le Van Thanh, deputy head of the ministry’s Overseas Labor Management Department, said opportunities for overseas employment are still available to Vietnamese workers in some new markets like But Chuyen admitted it would be extremely difficult to meet the labor export target this year. Last year 80,320 Vietnamese workers went abroad, 10 percent less than the government had targeted. By Bao Van, Thanh Nien News |
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