Minister of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs of Vietnam Dao Ngoc Dung pledges that Vietnam and ASEAN member countries will endeavor to promote the implementation of labor agreements approved at the Labor Ministerial Meeting. ASEAN (ALMM) for the 26th on Wednesday. Mr. Dung, along with other ASEAN Labor Ministers and ASEAN Secretary General Dato Lim Jock Hoi attended the virtual meeting and discussed how to promote competitiveness, responsiveness and flexibility of force. workforce ASEAN. The Ministers and Team Heads adopted statements including the ASEAN Declaration on Human Resource Development for the Changing World of Work, and ASEAN Labor Ministers' Declaration on the Future of Work: technology for inclusive and sustainable growth, ASEAN Declaration on promoting green jobs towards equity and inclusive growth, ASEAN Consensus on the protection and promotion of migrant workers' rights, Vientiane Declaration The blanket about the transition from informal employment to formal employment towards promoting stable employment in ASEAN, among other sectors. Delegates agreed that the ratification of such agreements will promote human resource development in ASEAN as well as enhance the competitiveness of the workforce. These documents will be the basis for ASEAN and each ASEAN member country to refer and integrate activities into their policies towards sustainable, people-centered and inclusive society. Equality. ASEAN labor ministers also adopted the 2021-25 work plan including the Working Group's plan on occupational safety and sanitation, and the ASEAN Action Plan on the protection and promotion of the rights of migrant workers. This will be an important basis for member countries to implement specific activities and projects in the coming time. They also adopted a number of documents to submit to the 37th ASEAN Summit to take place in November this year. On the same day, the ASEAN Labor Ministers Plus Three Meeting (ALMM + 3) was held with discussions focusing on promoting labor cooperation between ASEAN and China, South Korea and Japan.

Vietnam Minister of Labor Dung spoke highly of the topic "Promoting the competitiveness, responsiveness and flexibility of the ASEAN workforce in the future work", this topic is relevant to theme ASEAN 2020 in the meeting. Human resource development is one of three breakthroughs in Vietnam's socio-economic development strategy for the period 2011-20. Thanks to this strategy, the proportion of trained workers with degrees and certificates increased from 15.58% in 2011 to 24% in 2019 and is expected to reach the target of 25% by 2020. Some indicators of human resources Vietnam is also ranked highly in the region such as the human capital index, the innovation index, and the human development index. Minister Dung highly appreciated the effective coordination of ASEAN member countries in the formulation and adoption of the ASEAN Declaration on human resource development for the changing world, and expressed Vietnam's willingness to promote cooperation in ASEAN and ASEAN + 3 towards competition, a responsive and flexible workforce Minister Dung said that Vietnam is committed to working with ASEAN to promote effective implementation of the ASEAN Declaration on Human Resource Development for the changing world of work, and the ASEAN Declaration on promoting green jobs for equality. and Inclusive Growth, ASEAN Labor Ministers' Declaration on the Future of Work.

At the same time, Vietnam also hopes that cooperation between ASEAN member countries and ASEAN + 3 will be continuously promoted, towards building a competitive, proactive and flexible ASEAN workforce as the theme of the Conference. today. Minister Dao Ngoc Dung shared, in Vietnam, human resource development is one of three strategic breakthroughs in the Socio-Economic Development Strategy 2011-2020. The Government of Vietnam has approved the Human Development Strategy for the period 2011-2020. “After 10 years of implementation, a number of achievements can be mentioned: legal system, policy in the field of education - training, labor. - Employment, science and technology have been completed synchronously; The rate of trained workers with degrees and certificates increases from 15.58% in 2011 to 24% in 2019 and is estimated to reach the target of 25% by 2020; Labor productivity increased quite quickly. In Vietnam, there are many seminars to propose specific groups of solutions to develop the labor market to meet the process of economic restructuring towards modernization, proactive international integration and promote supply connectivity. domestic labor demand with international labor market. Mobilize and efficiently use resources to implement solutions to develop a healthy labor market.

At the Conference, Ministers, Head of Delegation took note of the adopted Declarations including: ASEAN Declaration on Human Resource Development for the changing world of work; ASEAN Labor Ministers Declaration on the Future of Employment: Adoption of Technology for Comprehensive and Sustainable Growth; ASEAN Declaration on Promoting Green Work Towards Equity and Inclusive Growth, ASEAN Consensus on Protecting and Promoting the Rights of Migrant Workers; The Vientiane Declaration on the transition from informal to formal employment towards promoting decent work in ASEAN; Statement of ASEAN Labor Ministers on the Promotion of Occupational Safety and Health Towards Sustainable Economic Growth. The Ministers, Head of the delegation highly appreciated the construction and adoption of the above Declarations will contribute to promoting human resource development in ASEAN, enhancing the competitiveness of the workforce. In addition, these documents will serve as the basis for ASEAN in general and each ASEAN member country to refer and integrate activities into their policies towards sustainable, people-centered development. the force towards an inclusive and equitable society. At the same time, the Ministers also approved the work plan for the period 2021-2025 in the labor channel, including: Work Program of ASEAN Labor Ministers; Working Plan of the Working Group on Advanced Labor Practices in ASEAN (SLOM-WG); Work Plan of the Working Group on Occupational Safety and Health, the Action Plan of the ASEAN Consensus on the Protection and Promotion of the Rights of Migrant Workers.