Over 96% of Da Nang's workers returned to work after the week-long Lunar New Year (Tet) holiday on Thursday.

Workers at a local company

Mr Tran Xuan Hoe, Vice Director of the 29 March Garment and Textiles Company, said that all 4,000 workers of the company resumed their work on Thursday.

This year, the company aims to earn 1 trillion VND in revenue from exports, thus paying workers 8.2 million VND each per month, he said, adding that the company will recruit additional 300 labourers in the 1^st quarter of 2018 to work in Quang Nam Province’s Duy Xuyen District.

After Tet, many enterprises have offered more support policies in salary and bonus to attract more workers.

In the Tet holiday, the Da Nang Labour Union presented 2,470 gifts totalling1 billion VND to poor workers, while appealing for another 1,130 Tet gifts worth 135 million VND from the city-based enterprises for them.

Local trade unions organised 45 free buses and gave away 5,000 travel tickets to workers to return to their hometowns for the holiday.

Da Nang is now home to 18,170 enterprises and cooperatives involving 345,000 labourers in total.

(Source: VNA/ DA NANG Today)