Hai Phong expands livelihood support for workers
In 2025, nearly 1,000 unemployed workers in Hai Phong participated in free vocational training courses, up more than 30 percent year on year.
Back to work soon
For many unemployed workers, returning to work quickly and earning a stable income remains a top priority. Pham Thi Dung, a resident of Phuong Lung 1 residential area (Hung Dao Ward), received unemployment benefits for five months from October 2025 to February 2026. She said that, at over 50 with declining health, she hoped to find a job more suitable to her condition.
Providing career counseling and vocational training support for unemployment benefit recipients has been identified as a key task of the Hai Phong Employment Service Center over the past year. Lacking formal training or skills, many workers are forced to change jobs frequently due to health limitations or an inability to keep pace with modern production lines.
Against this backdrop, vocational training has emerged as both a necessity and an opportunity for the unemployed. Courses are tailored to labor market demand and span fields such as IT, accounting, catering, healthcare, refrigeration and air-conditioning, and foreign languages.
Expanding support scope
Beyond vocational training, in 2025 the Legal Consultancy and Worker Support Center coordinated with the Workers’ Capital Support Fund under the Hai Phong City Labor Federation to complete procedures for emergency loans via the “Huong Cong – Hai Phong Trade Union” application. A total of 190 loans worth VND 1.2 billion were disbursed, helping workers gain greater confidence in starting up small businesses.
Hai Phong’s extensive and well-distributed vocational training network, spanning diverse fields, is a major asset in workforce development. In addition, skills training for unemployed workers has been stepped up. Nguyen Thi Anh Huong, Director of the Viet Tiep Friendship Labor Cultural Palace, said that over the past year, the unit coordinated to organize 28 skills training courses at 22 companies across eight industrial parks in the city, covering such fields as flower arrangement, makeup, skincare and presentation skills. The training courses help workers identify their strengths and pursue appropriate jobs.
The flexible and coordinated implementation of training and support measures, particularly for unskilled and unemployed workers, has helped address labor market needs. This also lays a solid foundation for Hai Phong to achieve its goal of raising the proportion of trained workers to 55–60 percent by 2030, thereby improving the quality of human resources to meet development demand.
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