Ha Noi gives aids to guest workers returning from Libya

VGP - Ha Noi has launched several aid packages to support its guest workers in Libya who had returned home prior to their contracts due to conflicts in the North African country.

August 22, 2014 5:22 PM GMT+7

Guest workers get on a bus at Noi Bai International Airport in Ha Noi

Accordingly, each returnee will receive VND1 million in cash sourced from the city’s budget.

The Viet Nam Bank for Social Policies will reschedule loans borrowed by workers for trips to Libya to 24 months.

Meanwhile, the municipal Department of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs has proposed loans worth a maximum of VND20 million to those who want to be self-employed.

It will also support vocational training fees for the former guest workers who wish to learn a new occupation and advise them to seek new jobs at employment service centres and job fairs in the city.

Ha Noi has 179 guest workers leaving Libya ahead of schedule.

The country’s evacuation of its 1,750 guest workers from war-torn Libya has almost completed with 1,379 already back home by August 17 and all those working in strife-hit Tripoli and Bengazhi cities moved to safer areas.-VNA