Hanoi is stepping up training for Vietnamese workers who seek employment in Taiwan, as Taiwan prepares to lift a decade-long ban on Vietnamese fishing workers and caregivers this month.
The Vietnamese Department of Overseas Labor, which is part of the nation’s Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs, said it has designed and compiled Chinese-language teaching materials for staffing agencies and workers.
According to Vietnamese regulations, employment brokers are required to provide workers with training related to their profession, language skills and the customs and laws of their destination country, the department said.
It said it would continue to fine Vietnamese workers who abscond from their jobs, step up inspections of employment brokers and gradually reduce the fees that Vietnamese workers have to pay to work in Taiwan.
Taiwan barred Vietnamese fishermen in May 2004 and froze the hiring of Vietnamese caregivers and domestic workers in January 2005, saying workers kept fleeing their jobs.
Taiwan said in April that it would lift the ban this month. The move came after Indonesia said that it plans to stop sending domestic workers overseas by 2017, sparking shortage concerns.
Indonesian workers make up about 80 percent of foreign caregivers and domestic workers in Taiwan.
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