Overview of the seminar (Photo: VNA)
This was a forum to discuss and exchange basic information on the supply capacity of Vietnamese laborers, and the need and ability to receive foreign workers from the province of Karlovy Vary.
At the seminar, Vietnam affirmed that it had a lot of experience in international labour cooperation and provided skilled labourers for many countries in the world such as Japan, the Republic of Korea and Qatar.
At present, more than 500,000 Vietnamese are working in more than 40 countries in the world in many fields, including nurses, caregivers, mechanical workers, and machine manufacturers. Therefore, Vietnam can supply the technical and quality human resources as required by Czech companies.
Karlovy Vary province said that it lacked 6,500 laborers and Vietnamese are an important direction that businesses located in the area look towards.
The Czech Republic lacks 200,000 skilled laborers and in the future it may need 700,000 ones in various types. Therefore, the reception of laborers from countries outside the European Union (EU), including Vietnam, is considered an urgent need.
Answering questions from Czech businesses about Vietnamese laborer, Ambassador Ho Minh Tuan said that since 2008, the Vietnam-Czech Republic Labor Cooperation Agreement has expired and hasn’t yet been renewed. The expert exchange between the two countries has not been conducted. The human resources exchange model between enterprises of the two countries has not been started.
Vietnamese laborers now working in the Czech Republic are mainly handled through brokerage companies with very high costs or under contracts signed directly between workers and enterprises on a very small scale. The new cooperation form of local administrations in the Czech Republic signing Vietnamese labour employment contracts with 261 Vietnamese companies licensed and having real capacity is necessary in the immediate future. Karlovy Vary can be considered a pioneer of this new cooperation form.
However, to realize this plan, it is necessary to have the full measures and efforts of both parties. On the Czech side, it is a change in the policy of receiving migrant workers, especially procedures relating to issuance of visas and residence cards for Vietnamese workers. On the Vietnamese side, it is necessary to provide specific information, and to determine the real labor demand in the Czech Republic for domestic businesses and Department of Overseas Labour under the Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs.
Mr. Josef Janu, member of the Karlovy Vary Provincial Council, said that there are 6,000 Vietnamese people already living in the province, and it needed employees mainly in the fields of healthcare, convalescence, hotels and resorts. It is also home to many handicraft production facilities, so it highly welcomes skilled laborers from Vietnam.
Karlovy Vary has advantages in tourism, mining, machine manufacturing and chemicals./.