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Workers’ right must be ensured amid CPTPP implementation
Workers’ right must be ensured amid CPTPP implementation
7/8/18
Trade unions should work to ensure workers’ rights and interests amid challenges arising from the implementation of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), a trade union official stated.
Vice President of the Vietnam General Confederation of Labour (VGCL) Tran Thanh Hai made his statement at a seminar on CPTPP opportunities and challenges facing workers’ jobs and rights, held by the Thua Thien – Hue Labour Confederation in the central province.
The seminar received 26 papers by experts, lecturers, and trade union officials. Their contents revolved around a number of issues, including advantages – disadvantages in ensuring workers’ rights when the CPTPP takes effect, as well as suggestions to the revision of the 2012 Labour Code and the Law on Trade Union in order to facilitate and promote the role of trade unions.
Le Dinh Quang, deputy head of the VGCL’s Labour Relations Department, said when the deal comes into effect, it will be more likely for workers to lose their jobs, as companies with weak performance will face high risks of bankruptcy.
Labour relations will also become more complicated due to the formation of more organisations following different purposes, Quang noted.
Speaking from the current operation of the Thua Thien – Hue Labour Confederation, Nguyen Quoc Dat, member of the confederation’s standing board, said for membership development, trade unions should overhaul their establishment method, particularly the election process.
The scope of their eligibilities for membership should also be expanded to cover part-time workers, domestic workers, and foreign workers in Vietnam, he added.
The original Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) was signed by 12 countries in February 2016, but US President Donald Trump pulled his country from the deal upon his inauguration in January 2017.
The remaining 11 countries – namely Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, and Vietnam – signed the pact and renamed it the CPTPP during their meet-up in March 2018 in Chile.
The CPTPP will create one of the world’s largest free trade blocs with a combined market of 499 million people and GDP of around 10.1 trillion USD, accounting for 13.5 percent of the global GDP.
Mexico, Japan and Singapore have ratified the pact./.
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Rights of workers are a complement of human rights. Vietnam has issued many policies to protect and promote them.
Vietnamese Party and State protect the right to work, the interests and other rights of the employee. At the same time it protects the legitimate rights and interests of the employer, thus creating conditions for the establishment of harmonious and stable labor relations.
The country has its Labor Code to help develop the creativeness and talent of the intellectual and manual workers as well as of the labor managers, in order to achieve high productivity, quality and social progress in labor, production and service, efficient use and management of labor.
It should be added to the country's human rights record!
Protecting workers' rights will contribute to the industrialization and modernization of the country in the cause of bringing prosperity to the people and strength to the nation and building a just and civilized society.
The government needs to create an environment that protects workers economic, social and physical security.
In Vietnam, everyone has the right to work, to choose freely a job or profession, to learn a trade and to improve his/her professional standard without discrimination of sex, nationality, social background, belief or religion.
The State encourages, creates conditions for or assists all activities which generate employment or self-employment, all activities in job teaching and learning to create employment as well as all activities in production and business which employ a large work-force.
The initiative has drawn upon international human rights standards, focusing on promoting socio-economic environments that ensure workers' equal opportunities and benefits.
The employee has the right to found, join and work for a trade union according to the Trade Union Law, in order to protect his/her legitimate rights and interests.
The employee is entitled to the community welfare benefits and take part in the management of the business according to the rules of the business and the prescriptions of law.
The employee has the obligation to fulfill the labor contract and the collective labor accord, to observe labor discipline and labor regulations and to obey the lawful direction of the employer.
It shows freedom of workers that the employee has the right to strike as prescribed by law.
Protecting workers' rights is an important task of implementing human rights!
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