Solving employment for workers subject to land acquisition

Decision 63/QD-TTg of the Prime Minister on vocational training and job creation for workers whose land has been recovered will be implemented from February 1.

This is a policy with many outstanding new points because the State will support vocational training and job creation for workers whose land is recovered when they have a need within a period of 5 years from the date of the land recovery decision.

Support funds are taken from training, career conversion, and job search sources and are included in the total cost of the investment project, or the approved compensation and resettlement support plan.

Workers whose land is recovered will be supported with preferential loans from the Social Policy Bank for vocational training and job creation.

Currently, many localities are also considering issuing preferential policies for people whose land is recovered.

These policies will create openness and convenience for land acquisition and site clearance to implement projects in almost all localities across the country.

In the process of industrialization and urbanization, many localities across the country have had to convert a large area of ​​agricultural land into industrial land, causing a huge impact on land resources, affecting jobs, income and life of people in the region.

While most localities do not have specific directions for creating jobs for people who lose their land after land acquisition, it requires authorities at all levels and businesses to have support plans to help people whose land is acquired stabilize their lives, such as job creation policies, social security policies, etc.

The issue of creating jobs for workers after losing their productive land is very necessary. This solution will help households whose land is recovered to immediately receive compensation money to invest in projects built on their land.

In particular, these policies can be implemented before land acquisition so that workers can change their occupations and livelihoods in a sustainable manner.

Reality shows that if local authorities have clear orientations, socio-economic planning as well as land use planning, businesses have support and preferential policies for local workers, and households are proactive in changing their livelihoods, people whose land is recovered will quickly stabilize their lives. Thanks to that, land recovery for project implementation will also be more favorable, complaints related to land recovery will no longer be a "hot spot."

For example, the Long Thanh airport project. According to the approved plan, the land area of ​​the project is 5,000 hectares with 5,000 households in the area having to relocate for this project, meaning tens of thousands of people will have their land reclaimed and have to find suitable livelihoods.

To solve this problem, the People's Committee of Dong Nai province is developing a vocational training plan for people affected by the Long Thanh airport project, with the goal of prioritizing their recruitment to work at the airport.

In the immediate future, Dong Nai provincial authorities have surveyed and classified all types of land in the project area, from residential land, agricultural land, religious buildings, and production and business establishments.

Currently, the province has counted nearly 5,000 households, classified each occupation and income of the households living there, surveyed and collected opinions from all people in the project area to orient vocational training for each household.

In the compensation plan, Dong Nai also takes into account policies for job placement and vocational training because the provincial government aims that after arriving at the resettlement area with new accommodation, people need to stabilize their lives.

The province has worked with vocational schools in the province and in industrial parks, asking people what jobs they want to do to have a training direction, thereby planning to invest in two resettlement areas and receiving 100% support from the people.

Because around these resettlement areas there are many industrial parks that can provide many convenient jobs for people, typically Long Duc Industrial Park, Amata, Nhon Trach Industrial Park...

Dong Nai province is starting to build a compensation policy framework. Since this is a large, national project, the compensation policy framework will be drafted by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment in coordination with the province, then submitted to the Prime Minister for approval.

The province will direct relevant agencies to organize short-term training for people to work in local industrial parks. In the long term, training will be provided so that people can work right in Long Thanh airport projects. Especially when Long Thanh airport is put into operation, what occupations will be needed for labor? From now on, priority will be given to vocational guidance for people in the project area to go to school, promptly providing human resources when the airport is put into operation.

As one of the localities with a large area of ​​land recovered to develop industrial parks and economic zones, Quang Ngai province is also actively implementing many policies to support people whose land is recovered for industrial parks and key projects of the province.

Dung Quat Agricultural and Forestry Technical Support Center alone has provided vocational training for 138 workers and created jobs for 150 workers from households whose land was recovered in Binh Son and Son Tinh.

In the near future, the Center will implement a value chain in agricultural production including growing mushrooms, clean vegetables and raising safe chickens, and converting occupations for people whose land is subject to land acquisition to implement the Dung Quat Oil Refinery Expansion Project./.

According to Vietnam+