Persisting to build safe boarding house model for workers

(BGO) – The Chairman of Bac Giang provincial People’s Committee (PPC) Le Anh Duong on July 7 paid a field trip to inspect the safe boarding house in Viet Yen district. 

To date, Viet Yen district has reviewed 1,746 boarding houses with 29,852 rooms mostly in the communes of Quang Chau, Van Trung, Tang Tien and Nenh town. The Department of Construction verified 727 facilities with total of 15,476 qualified rooms while the remaining ones are under verification.

PPC Chairman Le Anh Duong inspects the worker's room.

Recently, the district People’s Committee has introduced qualified boarding houses to many businesses in the industrial parks so that they can survey and hire to arrange concentrated accommodation for workers. 10 enterprises have inked boarding house renting contract for their labourers.

After actual inspection, PPC Chairman Le Anh Duong acknowledged recent efforts of Viet Yen district, the provincial Industrial Park Management Board (IPMB) and working group to support safe boarding house for workers.

He pressed that to well conduct the task of disease prevention and control at the industrial park, the province urged the businesses to arrange safe concentrated accommodation for workers. The enterprises must hire boarding house for their labours separately from other companies.

PPC Chairman Le Anh Duong inspects the production and accommodation arrangement for workers at Crystal Martin Vietnam Company Limited in Quang Chau industrial park.

To do this, Viet Yen district, IPMB and working group should persist to build the model of safe boarding house for workers as well as enhance the communication to gain the enterprises’ trust and consensus.

The provincial leader ordered Viet Yen district and relevant sectors to prepare solutions to strictly manage the model of safe boarding house for businesses to avoid the pandemic outbreak while selecting to build exemplary boarding house to widespread later.

More than 70,000 workers have come back work. The IPMB and local authorities need to have solutions to constrain the enterprises in self inspection and supervision. When welcoming labourers, the companies must strictly control and screen to exclude any infection.

PPC Chairman Le Anh Duong speaks at the meeting.

The firms should organize to take workers’ samples for Covid-19 test in the first two months after resuming the production, promote the role of Covid-19 safe team in the businesses to timely detect any risk of infection.

Regarding traffic issue, the relevant agencies were ordered to ensure safety and smooth travel for workers at the disease control stations to prevent the traffic jam and big gathering. Businesses must seriously conduct disease preventive regulations when picking up workers by buses.

Nearly 56,000 workers come back to work at industrial park

(BGO) – After about one month implementation of the Plan No.213 issued by the People’s Committee in Bac Giang province (PPC) about re-organizing the production for businesses at the industrial park (IP), to date, 247 enterprises in the province qualified with the Covid-19 safety condition and preventive measure have been allowed to resume operation. 

 

Arranging accommodation for nearly 18,400 workers

(BGO) – Since June 21, the Industrial Park Management Board (IPMB) in Bac Giang province has coordinated with the districts and city to make a list of boarding houses, motels, hotels and functional transformation schools to introduce to enterprises for their rental purpose.  

 

Accompanying workers to overcome difficulties

(BGO) - The Covid-19 outbreak in Bac Giang province has attacked businesses in industrial parks (IZs), affecting workers' health, employment and income. Promoting the role of protecting and taking care of members, trade unions at all levels in the province have gathered all resources to promptly support tens of thousands of workers to overcome difficulties.

 

New Zealand Embassy presents gifts to pandemic-hit female workers

(BGO) - The Vietnam General Confederation of Labour (VGCL), the Embassy of New Zealand in Vietnam, and the provincial Confederation of Labour jointly organized a ceremony to present gifts to female workers affected by the Covid-19 pandemic on the afternoon of June 28.

 

Viet Yen routes traffic for workers at industrial parks

(BGO) – Implementing the instruction from the Chairman of Bac Giang provincial People’s Committee, after field survey and agreement with the Management Board of industrial park (IP), the People’s Committee in Viet Yen district has issued correspondence about routing the traffic for workers on the way to work at the IP in the district and back home.