Vietnam shares experience in ensuring operation of informal labour area
VOV.VN - The country has carried out policies aimed at enhancing the role and ensuring the legitimate rights and interests of individuals and informal enterprises, especially household businesses, thereby maintaining social and cultural cohesion whilst promoting sustainable production.
Ambassador Dang Hoang Giang, Vietnam permanent representative to the UN, was speaking this at a high-level dialogue held on leveraging informal employment for inclusive development in Asia and the Pacific held by the UN Development Programme (UNDP) on May 14 in New York.
The Vietnamese diplomat stated that nearly 65% of the nation’s workforce is employed in the informal area.
He shared that Vietnamese experience in improving legal frameworks; encouraging mutual support among business households through appropriate partnership models such as cooperatives; ensuring strict management; and the timely support from local authorities for individuals, small and medium-sized enterprises, and household businesses.
Representatives took time to assess trends related to the informal labour sector in the region, whilst sharing good practices and lessons in terms of implementing policies and support measures specifically for informal labourers and enterprises in a bid to enable them to continue contributing to economic development efforts.
According to the definition set out in the 2022 Report on Informal Employment in Vietnam by the General Statistics Office (GSO), the informal sector comprises of establishments engaged in production or business owned by households and not set up as separate legal entities, not independent of the households or their members owning them.
Informally employed individuals are those engaged in work that, as defined by law or in practice, is not protected by a labour law, does not entail income tax payment, or does not entitle them to either social protection or other employment benefits.
