Trade union supports female workers with childcare costs of 2.4 million VND/year

Currently, the Vietnam Union of Science and Technology (CĐKHCNVN) is managing and directing the activities of 53 affiliated trade unions with a total of 82,838 union members; of which female union members have 34,267 people, accounting for 41.36%. The majority of union members and workers have high professional qualifications and education; many women hold positions in research, management, teaching, and technical operation, being active nuclei in patriotic emulation and innovation movements...

According to CĐKHCNVN, implementing Resolution 6b/NQ-BCH on mobilizing female workers, civil servants, and laborers (CNVCLĐ) in the period of accelerating industrialization and modernization of the country and Directive 03/CT-TLĐ of the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor on the emulation movement "Good at state affairs, good at housework" among female CNVCLĐ (2010-2025), under the attention and facilitation of Party committees and professional departments at all levels, trade unions at CĐKHCNVN recognized the importance of Resolution 6b and thoroughly disseminated to all CNVCLĐ in general and female CNVCLĐ in particular the views and objectives of women's work in the new situation.

At the same time, promptly direct, propagate, and thoroughly grasp Resolution No. 11-NQ/TW dated April 27, 2007 of the Politburo on women's work in the period of accelerating industrialization and modernization of the country; Directive 21-CT/TW dated January 20, 2018 of the Secretariat on continuing to promote women's work in the new situation and Directive 03/CT-TLĐ on continuing to promote the emulation movement "Good at work, good at home", new regimes related to female labor in the Law on Social Insurance, Trade Union Law, Population Ordinance, Gender Equality Law...

Many trade unions directly under the Vietnam Science and Technology Union have good and practical ways to support and accompany female workers such as: The Trade Union of Vietnam Post Corporation supports the cost of sending children to female workers who give birth on schedule (children over 4 months to under 6 years old), the current support level is 2.4 million VND/child/year, from the centralized welfare fund of the Corporation. VNPT Trade Union supports funding for female employees taking maternity leave, raising young children, female employees being sent to centralized schools...

Typical examples include VNPT-Dak Lak supporting 3 million VND/birth, VNPT Ho Chi Minh City supporting an additional month of regional minimum wage/month for female workers giving birth, VNPT Ba Ria-Vung Tau supporting 3.5 million VND/birth, VNPT Vinh Long supporting female workers with young children under 36 months old going to nurseries at a rate of 100,000 VND/month...

In the period 2021-2025, the results of implementing a number of specific targets in the Vietnam Science and Technology Union related to female labor and women's work are as follows: 100% of state-owned enterprises, 100% of non-state-owned enterprises with trade union organizations have collective labor agreements, of which 100% of agreements have regulations that are more beneficial for female workers than the provisions of law; the proportion of women participating in the trade union executive committee reaches 30% or more, grassroots trade unions have 30% or more female employees, trade union members, have key trade union leaders who are female or have female members who are members of the Standing Committee, Executive Committee of the trade union, leadership agencies of trade unions at all levels with a proportion of women suitable to the goal of gender equality; 100% of key trade union officials at all levels, 100% of female trade union officials at upper-level trade unions are trained and trained in content on gender equality, gender integration in trade union activities.

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