VietNamNet Bridge – Unemployed workers want to register their
unemployment at state management agencies just to get unemployment allowances,
while they do not intend to attend free apprenticeship courses.
In 2011, Hai Phong City
reportedly had 3802 people registering their unemployment. Meanwhile, the
figure jumped to 5757 just in the first eight months of the year.
Under the current regulations,
unemployed workers would be able to attend free vocational training courses
funded by the Unemployment Insurance Fund. However, none of the 5757 workers
has registered the training courses.
On the morning of September 6,
the Job Center in Hai Phong City, the only agency that receives unemployment
registration in the city, was full of people. It was estimated that 100 people
were queuing up here to register for unemployment. The receptionist
continuously delivered unemployment registration forms to people, while other
officers were all busy dealing with workers.
According to Nguyen Thi Nga,
Director of the Hai Phong Job Center, the number of people registering
unemployment in the first eight months of 2012 increased by 207 percent in
comparison with the same period of 2011. Of this amount, 3507 can receive
unemployment treatment, up by 226 percent. The redundant workers are mostly
from footwear, garment, shipbuilding and steel enterprises.
Mai Thi Thu Hien, Head of the
Unemployment Insurance Division, said that footwear and shipbuilding companies
have been meeting big difficulties in the economic downturn and they have to
either lay off workers, or offer low pay, which has led to the increasingly
high number of unemployment rate.
In Hai Phong City, the
unemployment registration division is located not far from the career
consultancy division. While the former was always crowded with people coming to
register unemployment, the latter was always deserted with no visitor coming to
consult about vocational training.
When asked if they would attend
apprentice courses, most of the redundant workers present at the job center
shook their heads or laughed off.
Nguyen Thi Huong in An Duong ward
of Le Chan district, said that she claimed the unemployment status in order to
get 1.2 million dong a month in unemployment allowance, not to be eligible for
free vocational training courses.
“1.2 million dong is just enough
to partially cover our daily expenses. Meanwhile, I have to go selling
vegetables at the market to earn extra money. How can I arrange money to follow
the training courses?” Huong said.
Competent agencies in Hai Phong
have confirmed that none of the unemployed workers intends to attend
apprenticeship courses, and that people seem to keep indifferent to the
training.
In principle, redundant workers
are allowed to attend apprenticeship courses so that they can obtain better
working skills which may help them find other jobs later. However, they still
cannot see any benefits from this.
Under the current regulations, unskilled
redundant workers would get 300,000 for one month apprenticeship course.
However, the modest sum of money and the trained time are not enough to make
learners obtain basic skills of new careers.
Analysts also said that one need
a sum of money twice or triple the offered amount of money in order to be able
to learn a new career.
A lot of unemployed workers are
unskilled laborers, who do not have savings money. Therefore, when they get
redundant, they have to work somewhere to earn money to feed themselves and
children, while they cannot spend time on training.
Meanwhile, other redundant
workers said they do not think the training would help them find new jobs. “A
lot of school new graduates, who have qualification and foreign language
skills, stay unemployed. Meanwhile, I am too old to learn something more,” a
worker, 42 years old, said.
Compiled by Thu Uyen
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