Vietnam: What activities are employment service centers allowed to carry out?

According to Article 5 of Decree No. 196/2013/NĐ-CP of Vietnam’s Government, employment service centers are allowed to carry out the following activities:

1. Provide consulting services, including:

- Provide vocational training advice to workers about the selection of training vocation, training level and training institution according to their capacity and expectation;

- Offer employment advice to workers about selecting jobs appropriate to their capacity and expectation, skills in application for job, self-employment and finding jobs domestically and abroad;

- Offer advice to employers about recruitment, human resource management and development, using workers and career development;

- Provide advice about labor law and policies to both workers and employers.

2. Provide jobs to workers, supply and recruit workers upon request of employers, including:

- Introduce workers to employers;

- Supply workers upon request of employers;

- Organize recruitment examinations to recruit qualified workers who can meet requirements of the employers;

- Introduce and supply workers to units or enterprises licensed to develop guest worker programs.

3. Collect, analyze, forecast and provide information about the labour market.

4. Provide training courses to improve workers' capacity for finding jobs and training courses in other skills and vocations in accordance with effective regulations of law.

5. Give assistance to workers in cases where they change jobs, move to another working place or move abroad for working and other support as regulated by law.

6. Propagate and disseminate policies and laws on labor and employment.

7. Implement employment programs and projects.

8. Implement unemployment insurance policies as prescribed by law.

9. Provide other services as regulated by law.

View more details at Decree No. 196/2013/NĐ-CP of Vietnam’s Government, effective from January 20, 2014.

Thu Ba

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