A senior labour official on August 28 quashed rumours that contractors at the Vung Ang economic zone in central Ha Tinh province are recruiting 10,000 Chinese employees, saying this is false information.
Deputy Minister of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs Nguyen Trong Dam said at a press conference of the government that as of August 21 the economic zone was accommodating nearly 40,000 workers, of whom 30,438 were Vietnamese and 3,514 were foreigners, including 1,913 Chinese citizens.
The Taiwanese-invested steel Formosa project alone was employing nearly 27,000 workers, including 1,799 Chinese out of a total of 3,212 foreign workers there.
Twenty-nine contractors plan to recruit approximately 10,000 workers to speed up the Formosa project.
According to Dam, Ha Tinh considers contractors’ recruitment requests at different periods of time, based on the progress of the project. By August 27 provincial authorities had approved 2,063 applications, and they have yet to examine another 2,700 applications.
Contractors say they will need 40,000-45,000 workers, including approximately 8,000 Chinese nationals, for projects at the Vung Ang economic zone by the first quarter of 2015.
Among 1,913 Chinese nationals currently working at Vung Ang, 1,799 have been licensed, and the remainder are waiting for the license.
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