Labour Code training for journalists

A training workshop on the important changes in the new Labour Code will be organized for Vietnamese journalists based in the three biggest cities of Hanoi, HCM City and Da Nang on 18-19 July in Da Nang City.

ILO and the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA) will organize a training workshop on the important changes in the new Labour Code for Vietnamese journalists based in the three biggest cities of Hanoi, HCM City and Da Nang on 18-19 July in Da Nang City.

The amended Labour Code, which came into force on 1 May 2013, is expected to bring about comprehensive changes in the world of work. How to put into practice this important law is one of the key objectives of the ILO project “Support to development in industrial relations, wage fixing and labour law implementation institutions and capacity in Viet Nam”.

The Labour Code also for the first time touches the issue of sexual harassment at workplaces, for which dissemination is one important activity of the gender-based project “Awareness raising to support the effective implementation of the workplace sexual harassment provisions in the Labour Code”.

To achieve these goals, it is important to make employers, employees and the whole workforce understand the changes in the new law. This can be done through correct messages conveyed in the media.

The training workshop, therefore, aims to help more than 30 journalists from major media organizations be aware of key changes in the new Labour Code, including wages, employment contracts, trade union-related issues, sexual harassment and discrimination at workplaces.