(HBO) - Vice Chairman of the Tan Lac district People's Committee Le Chi Huyen has said that creating jobs for labourers is an important solution to help improve people's lives, and realise the goals of new-style rural area building and sustainable poverty reduction in the locality.
Ho Guom Garment Company in Phong Phu commune (Tan
Lac) coordinates in vocational training and job generation for over 400 local
labourers.
In 2022, the district People's Committee issued a plan to
implement a programme on job creation and vocational training for rural
workers. The district has cooperated with communes, townships and other
districts to organise eight conferences on recruitment consultancy, job
introduction, and labour export; and coordinated with the Employment Service
Centre to provide career orientation and vocational training for 550 12th
graders at four educational institutions: Muong Bi High School, Doan Ket High
School, Lung Van High School and the district Centre for Vocational Education
and Continuing Education.
This year, the district is allocated 791 million VND (33,300
USD) to support vocational training for labourers. On the basis of this financial
support, the centre actively opens vocation has held vocational training
classes with about 350 trainees, mainly from poor and near-poor households in
new-style rural communes, and underprivileged ones.
Currently, there are more than 80 enterprises operating in
the district, most of which have small and medium sizes. Notably, Ho Guom
Garment Company in Muong Lam hamlet, Phong Phu commune put into operation since
December 2018, has created jobs for 430 local workers with an average monthly
salary of 5 million VND. This year, the district is striving to reduce the
poverty rate from 15.36% to 13.01%.
To create more jobs for locals to contribute to promoting
sustainable poverty reduction, the district focuses on counseling and
introducing jobs for locals in various forms such as organising conferences,
introducing recruiters to communes and hamlets, and coordinating in holding
mobile job sessions. Attention is also paid to vocational training to improve
the quality of human resources, technical qualifications and skills of rural
workers, and increasing the proportion of trained workers. To date, Tan Lac
district has created jobs for 1,352 workers, reaching 90.12% of the yearly
plan./.
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