It is necessary to alter the framework for attracting and retaining high-quality human resources

DNHN - On the morning of August 20, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh spoke at the conference "Developing a Flexible, Modern, Sustainable, and Integrated Labor Market," emphasizing the importance of a training mechanism, salary reform, and a good working environment to attract and retain high-quality, skilled human resources.

According to the Prime Minister, when labour is available in the economy, underemployment and a high unemployment rate can have a wide range of implications, including social and political instability. On the contrary, if there is a severe labour shortage, low labour quality... will reduce the economy's competitiveness and have other implications During the development process, we must examine, calculate, and handle these two factors in tandem. 

The Prime Minister stated that there are both objective and subjective factors for labour market constraints. Some Party committees and authorities, particularly the heads of several ministries, branches, and units, are still unaware of the role and importance of developing the labour market; have not taken the initiative to develop effective solutions to ensure and develop a sustainable labour market. 

Leadership and direction of labour market development have not met the needs of the current situation and market. The ability to govern and run the labour market remains limited. There is a lack of appealing pay structures and strategies to retain personnel in the state-owned firm sector, particularly wage deficiencies.

The employment service centre and business system have not yet completely promoted the function of connecting labour supply and demand, assisting employees, particularly in overcoming market shocks. Many firms and bosses have not paid enough attention to their employees' rights, as well as their material and spiritual lives.

There hasn't been much focus on linking the domestic labour market with the foreign labour market in a way that is linked, comprehensive, sustainable, and stable. Not very interested in creating a comprehensive labour market database; up-to-date statistics for analysis, forecasting, and executive guidance on the labour situation remain restricted.

According to the Prime Minister, we have both opportunities and opportunities that are linked with difficulties and challenges; but more difficult, more challenging. 

The government stresses macroeconomic stabilization, inflation control, and guaranteeing key economic balances; acting coherently, fairly, closely, and effectively; and supporting each other between monetary and fiscal policies. Implement the Socio-Economic Development and Recovery Program (on a scale of 340 trillion - roughly 4% of GDP), focused on health, social security, business assistance, and infrastructure investment; administrative reform, establishing a fair, safe, and transparent business and investment climate.

These factors contribute to attracting investment, growing production and business, providing jobs to reduce unemployment, and encouraging labour market development.

The Prime Minister underlined that if we want to have developed industries, apply science and technology, and own innovations, inventions, and most sophisticated technologies, we must train regularly, fully, and professionally to have a breakthrough to acquire high-quality labour and master technology.

"A training system, pay reform, and a suitable working environment are required to recruit and retain competent and talented individuals in the public sector." "They must transform themselves into a resource and driving force in every agency, unit, and company, encouraging speedy and sustainable socioeconomic growth," the Prime Minister stated.

The Prime Minister stressed nine key answers in terms of future labour market directions, tasks, and solutions.

Raising labour market knowledge, adhering to market economy regulations, and seeing labour as a special commodity to have suitable systems and policies. Continue to improve institutions, policies, and laws consistently and synchronously so that the labour market evolves in the direction of flexibility, modernity, fullness, sustainability, efficiency, international integration, and job creation promotion. High and sustainable income.

In addition, continue to internalize and establish labour standards appropriate to Vietnam's situation as well as international standards (International Labor Organization conventions, new generation FTAs) to which Vietnam pledges and ratifies. Promote international collaboration and improve labour market links at home and abroad.

Recognize the demands, develop the labour market in the appropriate direction, and concentrate on the important areas, which are the current priorities such as digital transformation, green transformation, and climate change response... Encourage investment in labour and employment management digitization in conjunction with population management digitization.

Invest in processes, regulations, and resources to establish a multi-layered labour market information and forecasting system from the local, regional, national, and multi-sectoral levels per industry. The policy should be based on current data and future projections. "Many labour market measures, such as unemployment rate, underemployment, number of jobs generated... are extremely significant macroeconomic indicators in the direction and management of the economy and society," stated the Prime Minister.

Encourage the establishment of employment policies based on the principles of forecasting, strategic vision, initiative, and development of appropriate, attainable, and effective tasks in the near term, by the market mechanism. and, in the long run, diversify credit sources to support the creation of new employment, innovative and high-quality jobs, decent jobs, green jobs, servicing digital transformation, energy transformation, climate change response, and jobs for the underprivileged, and distant places.

It is vital to pay attention to the mobility of labour and jobs based on geography and location, maintaining an acceptable labour and employment distribution structure across the country. Creating jobs in rural and mountainous locations so that people may work in their hometown with a steady income and restrict their distance from their motherland. Implement housing assistance schemes for employees, especially those in industrial zones and large cities. With this aim, the government hosted a social housing conference to construct at least one million social housing units for workers and low-income individuals by 2030.

To increase the quality of education and training, improve the quality of human resources, and capitalize on people's possibilities, the training and vocational education system must be completely renovated in an open, flexible, and effective manner. gold number Encourage the mobilization of investment resources for human resource development. Focus on teaching foreign language skills, discipline, discipline... to integrate into the global work market.

Implement labour-market documents and regulations, Prime Minister's Decision No. 522/QD-TTg on career guidance, distribution of post-secondary students, and creating favourable conditions for vocational education institutions to organize the teaching of continuing education programs at the upper secondary level. "Currently, the recovery and development program is spending around VND 2,000 billion for training, vocational training, and job creation, and more is expected; our strategy is to spare no money for this, but to employ focus, keypoint, and efficiency," stated the Prime Minister.

Review and evaluate the organizational structure; invest in improving the capacity of the vocational training and education system, particularly in the training of high-quality human resources; develop and propose regional linkage models, and establish regional and national training centres based on key economic regions.

Focus on overcoming challenges and hurdles in connecting vocational education with businesses; developing favourable policies for learning, upgrading professional abilities, and measuring and recognizing employee skill levels. Promote training, retraining, extra training, and training at companies to successfully attract on-the-spot labour to comprehensively tackle the problem of local scarcity of human resources, the problem of service workers disruption, speedy recovery, and long-term socioeconomic growth.

PV