Vietnam attaches trade development with social security
3/11/19
Minister of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs Dao
Ngoc Dung affirmed Vietnam’s efforts to link trade development with ensuring
social security while meeting a delegation of the European
Parliament’s Committee on International Trade in Hanoi on
October 31.
At the event, the two sides discussed issues relevant to the ratification of
the EU-Vietnam
Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA), especially labour-related ones.
Over the past few days, the Vietnamese National Assembly has spent time on
scrutinising the draft revised Labour Code, and the country has also consulted
the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and relevant international
organisations in the country about this matter, the minister noted.
He cited the international bodies as saying that the draft revised Labour Code
has made a great stride in making law on labour. The code will affect around 54
million people in Vietnam, and it has highlighted the right to
self-determination and self-negotiation of employees and employers.
The Vietnamese parliament has ratified the ILO’s Convention No. 98 concerning
the application of the principles of the right to organise and to bargain
collectively. Besides, the spirit of the ILO conventions No. 108 and 87 has
also been reflected in the draft revised Labour Code, according to Dung.
Mentioning the EVFTA that is awaiting ratification, the official added Vietnam
has been making efforts to associate trade development with social security
ensuring for the sake of sustainable human development.
At the meeting, Chairman of the European Parliament’s Committee on
International Trade Bernd Lange said his delegation’s working trip to Vietnam
this time aims to strengthen Vietnam-EU cooperation. It is also meant to
prepare for the European Parliament and its member parliaments’ consideration
of ratifying the EVFTA and
the Investment Protection Agreement between the two sides./.
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