Soc Trang province provides jobs for laborers’ poverty reduction

Accordingly, the province calls on investment in factories and companies that can provide jobs for local laborers; accelerating vocational training for laborers, especially for rural and ethnic minority laborers; boosting labor export; and applying preferential policies for poor and Khmer ethnic minority laborers in vocational training and in loan support for production.

On average, 20-000-25,000 laborers in the province are provided with vocational training and job creation. According to Le Hoang Dien, Director of the provincial Department of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs, the province has focused on assisting laborers to work abroad. Under the assistance, each laborer joining labor export is assisted with fees for vocational training, foreign language training, medical testing, and fees for passport, visa and judicial profile. After being sent to work abroad, the provincial budget will support VND500,000-800,000 each, with the higher level of support given to poor, beneficiary and ethnic minority laborers, as well as those who return from military service. Since 2013, Soc Trang province has sent 1,700 laborers to work abroad.

Soc Trang province has also attracted investment to create jobs for local laborers. The Nha Be Corporation has recently inaugurated the construction of a workshop in the province which is expected to be put into operation in early 2018, creating jobs for some 3,000 laborers. Meanwhile, the Youngone from the Republic of Korea is recruiting 8,000 laborers for a plant which is expected to be operating from March 2018./.