Vietnam has sent more than 110,000 labourers abroad for work under contract in the first nine months of this year, the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs said on Wednesday.
Among those labourers, about 79,000 of them returned home after their contracts expired.
However, the number of labourers working abroad under valid contracts was over 650,000.
Deputy Minister of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs Nguyen Thi Ha said Vietnam’s labour market has continued to recover in the first nine months of 2023, the government’s portal reported.
As of September, the national labour force had reached 52.3 million people, up 760,000 labourers compared to the same period in 2022.
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