Ensuring employment, social welfare creates motivation for economic development: Official
Ensuring employment and social welfare for people is an important and regular task and responsibility of both the political and social systems, and always receives due attention of the Party and State, contributing to motivating economic growth, maintaining political stability, and demonstrating Vietnam's commitment to implement the Sustainable Development Goals to 2030.
Hanoi (VNA) - Ensuring employment and social security for people isan important and regular task and responsibility of both the political andsocial systems, and always receives due attention of the Party and State, contributing to motivating economic growth, maintaining politicalstability, and demonstrating Vietnam's commitment to implement the SustainableDevelopment Goals to 2030.
The statement was made by Deputy Ministerof Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs Le Van Thanh at the ministry’s workshopproviding information on policies related to labour, employment and social security held in Hanoi on November 28.
According to the official, over the recent years,the National Assembly, the Government, the Prime Minister, ministries and sectorshave issued many documents to institutionalise the stances, guidelines andpolicies of the Party and State on labour, employment and social welfare,including the Employment Law and the Social Insurance Law.
Implementing the programme on making legaldocuments, the ministry was assigned topreside over drafting a project to build the revised Employment Law and SocialInsurance Law in the 2023-2024 period.
An overview of the workshop (Photo: qdnd.vn)
Therefore, the workshop was held to widely make known the proposed amendments and new points of policies on labour, employmentand social welfare to ministries, sectors, localities and especially internationalpartners, and FDI enterprises, Thanh said.
This was also an opportunity to listen to opinionsshared by partners and businesses to continue improving these policies tobetter meet the requirements of the reality, he added./.
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An overview of the workshop (Photo: qdnd.vn) 
