UK Continues to Import Vietnamese Workers

UK Continues to Import Vietnamese Workers

The UK will continue to recruit workers from Vietnam to do jobs of hotel servant, receptionist, chef and bartender, according to the Overseas Labor Management Department under the Vietnam's Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs (MOLISA).

The department made the statement after an official of the Vietnam's Center for tourism services and labor supply (OSC) revealed that the UK has decided to stop granting visas to Vietnamese workers due to a high rate of contract breakers with about 6-7 per cent.  

The OSC and the Center for training and supply guest workers (TLC), the two main labor export businesses to the UK, have temporarily stopped recruiting workers to the foreign country since May 27, the department said. They have to deal with unsettled labor application forms for exports to the foreign market.  

The UK is a new market for Vietnamese workers. More than 400 Vietnamese people have been sent to work in the foreign country by the TLC and OSC since January 2004.

Another 100 employees are expected to be sent to the UK by the years-end, the department said. Their monthly wages are US$1,300 per capita. 

Up to 30-40 per cent of Vietnamese workers, however, illegally stay in the UK after their labor contracts have expired, the department concerned.

Youth, VNA