More than 122,000 Vietnamese went to work abroad in the first 11 months of this year.
Japan still employed the largest number of Vietnamese workers with 60,105 people, followed by Taiwan (China) with 53,883, South Korea with 1,732 and Singapore with 1,663.
This number underscores a breakthrough, after the difficulties of the past two years due to the heavy impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Vietnam previously targeted 90,000 people being contracted to work abroad this year.
Since March, many countries have reopened to foreign employees, including Vietnamese.
From August 2021 to August 2022, the Singapore Ministry of Manpower piloted the acceptance of Vietnamese workers working in the construction, shipping and processing industries in the form of a work permit visa.
In March 2022, MOLISA and the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade signed a Memorandum of Understanding between Australia and Vietnam on supporting Vietnamese people participating in the Australian Agricultural Labour Programme.
It is expected that the programme will receive about 1,000 Vietnamese to work in the agricultural sector in Australia each year. This is the first Memorandum of Understanding that Australia has signed with countries sending workers to Australia under this agricultural visa programme.
It will create a legal framework and facilitate Vietnamese citizens to easily enter Australia to work in the agricultural sector.
This year, a Memorandum of Understanding on recruitment, employment and labour repatriation between Vietnam and Malaysia was also signed. This was the continuation of the first Memorandum of Understanding on the recruitment of Vietnamese workers between the two countries signed in December 2003 and signed for the second time in August 2015. Since then, more than 100,000 Vietnamese labourers have come to work in Malaysia.
Currently, there are about 10,000 Vietnamese workers working in Malaysia, mainly in the manufacturing, construction, and service sectors.