Urgent need for unemployment insurance
(VOV) - More than 482,100 workers applied for unemployment insurance in 2012 and nearly 90 percent of them have enjoyed government’s support.
However, Le Quang Trung, deputy head of the Employment Department under the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA), said the rate of unemployment is still rising in many provinces and cities across the country.
At present, more than 421,000 people are in need of unemployment insurance.
For instance, thousands of workers in the northern province of Bac Giang have been left unemployed since Sanyo OPT company suspended operation in 2012.