More than 79,900 new jobs are created in the first six months of this year in HCM CIty. Photo congdoan.vn

HCM CITY — More than 163,000 labourers in HCM City found jobs in the first six months of 2023, up 0.21 per cent year on year, while more than 79,900 new jobs were created, a rise of 0.25 per cent, reported the municipal Department of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs.

In June alone, economic sectors in the city employed more than 26,500 labourers and created nearly 12,000 new jobs, with most jobs in the areas of trade, services, and industrial production.

Trần Lê Thanh Trúc, head of the Employment – Labour Safety Office under the city Department of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs, said that in the first half of 2023, the city organised 59 online job fairs, providing employment consultations to more than 69,700 labourers and helping over 43,200 labourers successfully find jobs.

The department processed nearly 59,000 out of 64,000 requests for unemployment allowances, and issued 512 decisions to give vocational training support to unemployed labourers.

It also received information from 245,400 labourers who wanted to seek jobs, she said, adding that the department also gathered information recruitment demands of 42,800 local businesses.

In the Jan-June period, HCM City sent more than 3,900 labourers to work abroad, 1,000 cases higher than that in the same period last year, mostly to Japan, the Republic of Korea and Taiwan (China).

In the period, nearly 7,639 foreign workers in the city received work permits, down nearly 900 from the same period last year, the department reported. — VNS