Labor
Labor policy and administration
Laos-China cooperation to improve workplace safety
Laos and China have agreed to ongoing cooperation in the labour sector with an emphasis on improving occupational safety in Laos. The cooperation agreement will focus on the exchange of visits between technical staff, experts and related senior officials, and other labour cooperation programmes identified by ...
Phetphoxay Sengpaseuth
Digitalisation Of Migrant Worker Management Discussed
(KPL) Representatives of the Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare, the International Labour Organisation, and the Australian and Canadian embassies met in Vientiane to discuss digitalization of migrant worker management and digital services to migrant workers in Laos.More ...
KPL
Rural communities oblivious to available labour information
Laos needs to cooperate with labour experts from Asean countries and development partners to improve the national labour market information system (LMIS) to benefit rural workers.More ...
Phetphoxay Sengpaseuth
Labour ministry, partners address worker health and safety
Officials from the Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare and development partners met in Vientiane recently to discuss ongoing efforts to address occupational safety and health in Laos.More ...
Phetphoxay Sengpaseuth
Authorities redoubling efforts to legalise Lao workers in Thailand
All Lao workers who return home to register with the authorities will need to get work permits and passports from labour officials so they can legally work in Thailand. The Ministry of Labour and Social welfare recently ordered all its provincial departments to provide free ...
Phetphoxay Sengpaseuth
Luang Namtha urged to step-up measures boosting labour market access
Provincial authorities must continue their efforts to increase access to the labour market for Luang Namtha people in line with the nation’s labour policy.More ...
Phetphoxay Sengpaseuth
Plans to end asbestos-use, related disease nationwide
Laos plans to put an end to asbestos-related diseases among workers by banning the use of the material to stop exposure, according to a leading official.More ...
Phetphoxay Sengpaseuth
Labour officials mull rural employment strategy
The Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare and involved government bodies yesterday held a brainstorming session on a draft rural employment strategy which is being drawn up to ensure all ethnic groups have access to work. The session was organised to encourage all the authorities ...
Phetphoxay Sengpaseuth
Vientiane authority to control unemployment rate at 2% of workforce
Lao govt aims to reduce the unemployment in Vientiane Capital to under 2% of its labor force by means of promoting jobs to 35,000 people in the market in 2018.More ...
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