Vocational training and job creation for employees is always highly concerned by the Da Nang Trade Unions and related agencies, in tandem with a fact that many solutions have been implemented to improve the quality of vocational training, thereby meeting the needs of human resources, creating jobs, ensuring social welfare.

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As reported by the Da Nang Employment Service Centre, in the first half of 2023, this agency received unemployment records via both face-to-face and online channels, set up procedures to settle unemployment insurance benefits for 11,269 people. The number of people who have decided to receive unemployment benefits is 6,881 and 362 others have decided to access vocational training.

Ms. Nguyen Thi Tuyet Lan, a resident from Hoa Khanh Bac Ward, Lien Chieu District, Da Nang, is a student who has just graduated from a training course on bartending and is now eligible for unemployment insurance schemes organised by the Da Nang Employment Service Centre.

Before that, Ms. Lan had 10 years working as a worker at a garment company in the city. However, due to family-ralated affairs, she quit her job and applied for unemployment benefits. Through the advice given by the staff of the Da Nang Employment Service Centre, she decided to be enrolled into a short-term vocational training course with the desire to acquire new career skills for herself.

According to Deputy Director of Da Nang Employment Service Centre Nguyen Thanh Diep, since the beginning of the year, the centre has opened 15 vocational classes with the participation of 387 trainees, given vocational training advice for 5,959 people, and provided information about training courses on occupational safety and hygiene to many city-wide organisations and businesses as well.

According to Mr. Diep, the biggest difficulty in vocational training for employees is that employment service centers are not allowed to train at elementary level or higher but still receive vocational training for less than 3 months. However, in reality, many employers now require employees to have a vocational certificate at elementary level or higher.

Therefore, the lack of training at the primary level has affected the interests of employees, making it difficult for many workers in joining short-term vocational training, service professions such as bartending and cooking, especially unemployed people who want to flexibly change careers but still need a vocational certificate at elementary level to applying for another job post in a more convenient manner.

In order to meet the actual needs, Diep suggested that employment service centers be allowed to provide vocational training at primary level in order to ensure workers' interests.

According to Vice Chairman of the Da Nang Federation of Labour Le Van Dai, in the face of the increasing requirements of the labour market in the context of the industrial revolution 4.0, many elderly workers and unskilled workers are at risk of layoffs.

In order to create opportunities for people to have better jobs and adapt to the development of the labour market, the Da Nang Federation of Labour has promoted cooperation with vocational training institutions, the associations of Culinary Culture and Tourism to launch training courses, retraining, short-term job change training.

“Vocational training for workers, especially those who lost their jobs after COVID-19, has always been highly concerned by the municipal Federation of Labour and deployed to grassroots trade union levels. Through these classes, workers will have more opportunities and options to find suitable new jobs, thereby contributing to economic development and stabilise their lives," Dai said.

Reporting by XUAN HAU - Translating by A.THU