Binh Thuan to beef up management on Vietnamese working in South Korea

In the period  between 2010 and 2014, 39 workers from Binh Thuan did not return home after their South Korean work contracts expired. Owing to a series of the State’s propaganda and mobilization, 21 ones have gone home so far but other 18 are illegitimately staying in the East Asian country that makes many candidate workers fail in completing procedures to leave for South Korea. Previously, the majority of Binh Thuan’s people working in South Korea  are residents of other provinces. They left their homeland and parents to make resident registration in Binh Thuan province  and work in South Korea. Hence local authorities could not contact with their families for mobilization.

 In 2015, 10 citizens of Binh Thuan have registered for work in South Korea to work as guest labourers. Before their departure, Department of Labour –Invalids and Social Affairs has given them consultancy, encouraged them to work hard and comply with the host country’s laws.

With the purpose of preventing and reducing the number of Vietnamese people illegally stay and work in South Korea, Binh Thuan provincial People’s Committee has promulgated Directive No.15/CTUBND dated June 3, 2014 on enhancing the management and stepping up the work of sending Vietnamese workers to foreign countries. Besides, Department of Labour-Invalids and Social Affairs has also issued a series of documents to ask units and localities to strengthen propaganda among local residents so that they mobilize their relatives to return home upon the expiration of their work contracts in South Korea, warning that they can face a civil fine up to VND 100 million if they violate. People’s Committees of districts, city, town as well as Divisions of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs have been requested to coordinate with other units, organization in mobilizing families who have members working abroad to sign commitments of returning home on schedule, not overstaying and working illegally. Functional agencies are reviewing the total number of guest workers in South Korea to deal with cases of fleeing or illicit stay to find jobs. Workers returning from South Korea can easy to find jobs through a preferential policy carried out by the Center of Overseas Labour.

Professional training courses have been opened regularly for officials and cadres in charge of employment work in the localities and units. The implementation of measures to prevent Vietnamese workers from fleeing and staying illegally in South Korea in accordance with the Prime Minister’s Directive No. 12 has been discussed and will be publicly announced at the offices of People’s Committees at commune/ward/townlet level or on mass media. Social organizations will carry out propaganda by delivering information sheets, holding meetings, activities among their members to call up on offenders to voluntarily return to Vietnam within grace period to avoid being fined in compliance with the laws. The provincial People’s Committee has directed Department of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs to collaborate with media agencies and authorities at all levels to organize consulting meetings, job festive days… to select workers on site; propagandize families of guest workers in South Korea to return home after their contracts expired; review the lists of workers illegitimately staying in South Korea and workers nearing the date of their contracts expired in order to take propaganda and deal with problems in line with regulations in decree No. 95/2013/NĐ-CP of the government.

Phuong Lan (Source: Binh Thuan Newspaper)