Mr. Pham Quang Vinh – Deputy Director General of GSO chaired the press conference
In the morning, April 24, 2020, in Hanoi, the General Statistics Office (GSO) held a press conference to announce the report on labor force survey in the first quarter and 4 months of 2020. Mr. Pham Quang Vinh – Deputy Director General of GSO chaired the press conference. Attending this event were representative of Ministry of Labor – Invalids and Social Affairs; representatives of units under the GSO; and reporters from press agencies in Hanoi.
At the press conference, Ms. Vu Thi Thu Thuy – Director of Population and Labor Statistics Department under the GSO presented the report on labor force survey in the first quarter and 4 months of 2020. According to the report, the outbreak of COVID-19 epidemic, which appeared from the end of January 2020, have had a great impact on the situation of production, business and employment, resulting in the reduction in labor market participation rate and the increase in unemployment and underemployment rates. Informally-employed labors, workers without signing labor contract, low-income labors, young and elderly labors are vulnerable groups of the COVID-19 epidemic. The report stated the statistics reflecting the impact of COVID-19 epidemic on labor force situation in the first quarter and 4 months of 2020, at the same time, proposed solutions for Vietnam to revive the economy in general, labor market and enterprises in particular.
Ms. Vu Thi Thu Thủy – Director of Population and Population Statistics Office (GSO) presented the labor force survey report
Also at the press conference, representatives of the GSO answered questions from reporters on labor and employment issues in the context of the COVID-19 outbreak.