Ministry of Labor recommends Japanese trainees not to pay money through "brokers"

Recently, there have been cases of some workers wishing to participate in the IM Japan program not carefully researching information and paying illegal money to organizations and individuals through intermediaries and brokers.

These organizations and individuals collected money under the guise of organizing pre-exam review sessions, promising to influence the exam results and choose occupations according to the wishes of the employees in order to illegally collect money.

A group of Vietnamese interns are doing internships in Japan.

The program of sending interns for technical internship in Japan according to the memorandum of understanding between the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs and the Japan International Human Resources Development Organization was assigned by the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs to the Overseas Labor Center to directly coordinate with IM Japan to implement.

Therefore, the Overseas Labor Center would like to remind employees that, apart from the IM Japan representative office in Vietnam, this unit does not coordinate with any other organization or individual to select, train and dispatch interns.

At the same time, the Overseas Labor Center does not organize or cooperate in organizing review courses before the exam. Therefore, employees review and practice by themselves before the exam, without paying any organization or individual to attend these courses.

Paying money to intermediary organizations or individuals is against the program’s regulations. If found violating this regulation, trainees will not be sent to Japan, even if they have signed an internship contract with the host company.