Programme brings warm Tet holiday to poor labourers
A great number of disadvantaged workers across the country have received free tickets to travel home to reunite with family for the upcoming Lunar New Year (Tet) holiday.
A free home-coming bus for workers (Source: dangcongsan.vn)
Hanoi (VNA) – A great number of disadvantaged workers across the country have received free tickets to travel home to reunite with family for the upcoming Lunar New Year (Tet) holiday under a programme launched by the Vietnam G𝔉eneral Confederation of Lജabour (VGCL).
According to VGCL Permanent Vice President Tran Thanh Hai, 30 out of 53 municipal and provincial labour unions which registered to join the programme have responded to the drive.
Apart from free home-coming buses, underprivileged employees will also be presented with gifts, each worth from 300,000 (13.5 USD) to 500,000 VND (22.5 USD).
On this occasion, local labour unions have been organising cultural activities for workers at processing and industrial zones who are unable to return home for Tet.
Under the programme, those enterprises which have cared for the interests of their workers will be honoured.-VNA
The Ho Chi Minh City Export Processing and Industrial Zone Authority (Hepza) will work to offer over 10,000 bus tickets for poor employees to return to their hometowns for the upcoming Lunar New Year (Tet) holidays.
The Hanoi Labour Federation will organise free bus trips for about 20,000 disadvantaged workers to return home for the upcoming Tet holiday in 2016, for the fourth year in a row.
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Needy workers in the northern province of Hai Duong on January 31 received gifts and free bus tickets to return to their hometowns to celebrate the Lunar New Year (Tet) holiday.
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A free home-coming bus for workers (Source: dangcongsan.vn)
