Chairman of Nghe An Provincial People's Committee meets and talks with workers

Comrades: Nguyen Duc Trung - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; Le Ngoc Hoa - Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; Kha Van Tam - Chairman of the Provincial Labor Federation co-chaired the conference.

Attending the conference were comrades: Ngo Duy Hieu - Vice President of the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor; Ngoc Kim Nam - Member of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, Head of the Provincial Party Committee's Mass Mobilization Commission; Nguyen Thi Kim Chi - Member of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee of Provincial Agencies; leaders of departments, branches and 320 workers, union officials at enterprises, Directors of FDI enterprises.

Panorama of the meeting and dialogue between Chairman of Nghe An Provincial People's Committee Nguyen Duc Trung and workers. Photo: Pham Bang

Delegates attending the conference. Photo: Pham Bang

AFFIRMING THE IMPORTANT ROLE OF WORKERS

Regarding the meeting and dialogue program, Mr. Nguyen Duc Trung - Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee said that in 2021 and the first months of 2022, Nghe An faced many challenges, especially the Covid-19 pandemic which severely affected the lives and production of businesses and workers. However, with the efforts of the entire political system, Party committees, authorities and the consensus of the people and businesses, the province has overcome difficulties and challenges and achieved very positive results in socio-economic development.

Reviewing the preliminary results of the province's socio-economic development in recent times, the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee emphasized that these results were achieved thanks to the great contributions of businesses and workers - those who directly participated in the production and business process, especially during the complicated period of the Covid-19 pandemic, helping the province control the epidemic and achieve socio-economic goals and targets.

Comrade Nguyen Duc Trung - Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee raised the issue of the meeting and dialogue program. Photo: Pham Bang

The Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee said that by early 2022, Nghe An province had 13,500 operating enterprises, with more than 230,000 workers, of whom 156,000 had joined the trade union. The average income of workers was 6 million VND/month. In addition, Nghe An also had 355,000 workers working in localities outside the province, of which 280,000 were workers.

In recent times, the Provincial Party Committee, People's Council and People's Committee have always paid much attention to the lives and jobs of workers; issued many mechanisms and policies to attract investment, creating many job opportunities for the labor force in the area.

Workers attending the conference. Photo: Pham Bang

In the period 2016-2020, local and central policies provided loans to create jobs with a total budget of 561 billion VND. The number of beneficiaries of preferential policies for job creation was 14,812 people. The Provincial People's Committee approved support for about 300,000 people affected by the Covid-19 epidemic, with an amount of more than 400 billion VND.

The Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee wishes to listen to the thoughts, aspirations, and difficulties that workers are facing. Thereby, the leaders of the Provincial People's Committee will continue to lead and direct all levels, sectors, localities, and enterprises to pay more attention to implementing policies for workers.

ComradeKha Van Tam - Chairman of the Provincial Labor Federation spoke at the conference.Photo: Pham Bang

Reporting on the summary of workers' opinions before the conference, comrade Nguyen Chi Cong - Vice Chairman of the Provincial Federation of Labor said that the recommendations and proposals of workers focused on 6 groups of issues: adjusting the regional minimum wage to increase workers' income; improving the management of social insurance software, handling enterprises with long-term social insurance arrears; strengthening the management of food safety and hygiene at production, trading and food business establishments serving workers in industrial parks.

Workers also proposed to be allowed to apply for temporary residence and temporary absence outside of working hours; to provide hotlines in convenient locations; to speed up the investment in building social houses, kindergartens, markets, and worker supermarkets; to have preferential mechanisms for workers to rent or buy social houses; some enterprises have not complied with labor safety regulations well; many enterprises have not yet complied with dialogue with workers...

Leaders of departments, branches and sectors attended the conference. Photo: Pham Bang

CONTINUE TO RESPOND TO THE LEGITIMATE DEMANDS AND PROPOSALS OF WORKERS

At the conference, workers and union officials directly asked questions to the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee, regarding the following contents: Policies to support rent, electricity and water bills for workers in industrial parks; progress of building social housing, cultural institutions for workers in VSIP Industrial Park, Bac Vinh Industrial Park; the health sector needs to create conditions for workers to go to the doctor on Sundays to be paid for health insurance; propose to arrange markets to serve the needs of workers in VSIP Industrial Park, Nam Cam Industrial Park; Organize a pilot bus to pick up and drop off workers more reasonably.

Workers raised questions at the conference. Photo: Pham Bang

Workers raised questions at the conference. Photo: Pham Bang

In addition, workers requested to resolve the situation of arrears, evasion of payment, and appropriation of social insurance, health insurance, and unemployment insurance money of workers, causing many workers to be infected with Covid-19 since February 2022 but have not received social insurance benefits; There is a solution to end the situation of businesses unfairly attracting each other's workers; Pay attention to considering and awarding Certificates of Merit from the Provincial People's Committee to workers; discipline employers to fully comply with labor laws, not violate workers' rights, and not listen to the opinions of workers and trade unions.

Comrade Nguyen Duc Trung - Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee directly discussed and specifically answered some questions from workers and full-time union officials. At the same time, he requested departments, branches and sectors to answer more specifically the questions from workers and union officials.

Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Nguyen Duc Trung directly answered some questions and recommendations from workers. Photo: Pham Bang

The Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee appreciates the opinions of workers; shares the difficulties and legitimate aspirations of workers and requests the Provincial Federation of Labor to continue listening to and synthesizing the opinions and aspirations of workers and enterprises to send to competent authorities for consideration and resolution, protecting the legitimate interests of workers.

In the spirit of listening and sharing to join hands to solve difficulties for workers, the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee requested that with their functions and tasks, the sectors pay attention to solving legitimate needs and recommendations, so that workers can work with peace of mind and contribute to the construction and development of the province.

Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Le Ngoc Hoa directly answered some questions and recommendations from workers. Photo: Pham Bang

For 320 workers, full-time union officials also need to join hands and accompany businesses in ensuring health, equipping them with necessary skills to protect their interests, enhancing professionalism in production, and ensuring harmony of interests between workers and businesses.

For enterprises in the area, the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee requested that they strictly comply with legal regulations, ensure legitimate rights, create conditions for the establishment of grassroots trade unions, pay attention to the regimes and policies for workers; regularly organize dialogues with workers to enhance understanding, sharing, cooperation, build harmonious, stable and progressive labor relations, avoid creating frustration between employers and workers; care for improving the material and spiritual life of workers, limit the creation of conflicts; promptly care for, encourage and reward workers to create attachment and encourage workers to work enthusiastically.

The Head of the Southeast Economic Zone Management Board directly answered some questions and suggestions from workers. Photo: Pham Bang

Director of the Department of Transport Hoang Phu Hien answers questions and suggestions from workers. Photo: Pham Bang

Regarding the Provincial Federation of Labor, the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee requested to direct all levels of unions to promptly grasp the thoughts, aspirations and recommendations of workers, recommend competent authorities to promptly resolve them, promote the dialogue mechanism between enterprises and workers; propagate union members to know, proactively detect and point out violations of the law by enterprises, and guide the building of industrial style in the current period.

On the other hand, the Provincial Federation of Labor also needs to coordinate with the Provincial Emulation and Reward Board to develop criteria for rewarding workers, organize many cultural and sports activities; speed up the progress of investment in building trade union institutions at Bac Vinh Industrial Park; continue to synthesize proposals and recommendations of workers and trade union organizations to send to all levels and sectors for timely resolution.

Representatives of FDI enterprises attending the conference. Photo: Pham Bang

The Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee also requested departments, branches and localities to deploy solutions to promptly grasp the compliance with labor laws and policies for employees at enterprises. If violations are detected, they must be strictly handled and advised to support the effective implementation of policies for employees; actively urge investors to quickly and effectively implement social housing projects, attract investment projects to synchronously provide support services for employees such as markets, supermarkets, kindergartens, ensure traffic safety, labor safety, security and order for workers.

In addition, departments, branches and localities must also actively inspect and supervise the collection of electricity and water usage fees of workers staying in rented accommodation to ensure the legitimate rights of workers; establish hotlines in industrial parks and enterprises for workers to report when necessary; strictly handle acts of not paying social insurance; propose and submit forms of rewards from the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee for workers; create favorable conditions and support locations for businesses to expand production and invest in building services for workers.

Comrade Ngo Duy Hieu - Vice President of Vietnam General Confederation of Labor spoke at the conference.Photo: Pham Bang

Speaking at the conference, comrade Ngo Duy Hieu - Vice President of the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor highly appreciated the scale and methodical nature of the meeting and dialogue between the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee and workers. In addition, the collection of opinions and aspirations of workers before the conference was timely, closely implemented, with rich and typical content. At the conference, the opinions of workers were frank and the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee, departments, branches and sectors responded and explained responsibly, closely to reality, creating a close and sharing atmosphere.

The Vice President of the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor hopes that workers will continue to make efforts, improve their health, study, improve their qualifications and professional skills, and meet the requirements of the 4th Industrial Revolution; regularly participate and make valuable contributions to union activities. For businesses, they should continue to consider workers as their greatest asset to care for, care for, support, and continue to pay attention to resolving workers' petitions.

Comrade Ngo Duy Hieu - Vice President of the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor and Comrade Nguyen Duc Trung - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee presented flowers and commended 50 outstanding and exemplary workers.Photo: Pham Bang

Comrade Ngoc Kim Nam - Head of the Provincial Party Committee's Mass Mobilization Commission and Comrade Nguyen Thi Kim Chi - Secretary of the Provincial Agencies Party Committeepresented flowers and commended 50 outstanding and exemplary workers.Photo: Pham Bang

Comrade Ngo Duy Hieu - Vice President of the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor and Comrade Nguyen Duc Trung - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee presented flowers and commended 16 leaders of "For Workers" enterprises.Photo: Pham Bang