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Enterprises that have sent Vietnamese workers to Libya must step up supports to labourers to ensure their safety and incomes, the Vietnamese Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA) requested.
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| Vietnamese workers at a construction site in Tarhoona, Libya. (Photo: VietNamNet) |
MOLISA\'s Department for Overseas Labour Management on February 22 held a meeting on the issue in Hanoi with representatives from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and companies that have labourers working in Libya.
The move is expected to protect Vietnamese labourers in Libya from any danger resulting from the unstable political situation in the north African country.
Companies with employees in the country have been asked to tightly collaborate with their partners in Libya in to ensure the safety of their workers.
They were also told to report any unfair treatment, cases of unemployment or fatalities to Vietnamese workers there in a timely manner. Such reports would be made to the Vietnamese embassy’s Labour Management Department in Libya.
The Department for Overseas Labour Management required corporations to discourage labourers being present in any place with political strikes and large crowds.
No more Vietnamese labourers should be sent to Libya in case of further unrest, the department noted.
According to the Vietnamese Labour Management Board in Libya, as many as 10,000 Vietnamese people are working in the country at present.
Among them, around 2,000 people are working in Benghazi, the second largest city in Libya, where uprising has been happening in recent days. Other people are working in Tripoli and the surroundings.
At present, work on construction sites in Libya have been temporarily halted. And Vietnamese workers have been requested to stay in camps or have been evacuated to safe places. They are also being provided with sufficient food.
On February 22, the Foreign Ministry’s spokesperson, Nguyen Phuong Nga raised concerns over the unrest in Libya as well as the fate of Vietnamese citizens there.
Nga said “Vietnam is concerned over the recent developments in Libya and hopes that the political situation in Libya will be stabalised soon.”