Focus on monitoring the implementation of workers' policies
Through social supervision and criticism, the Vietnam Trade Union has better performed its function of representing and protecting union members and workers.
That is one of the comments at the Workshop to evaluate the results of 10 years of implementing Decision No. 217-QD/TW dated December 12, 2013 of the Politburo (11th tenure) on supervision and social criticism of the Vietnam Fatherland Front and socio-political organizations organized by the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor under the chairmanship of Vice President of the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor Ngo Duy Hieu.
Attending were Ms. Nguyen Thi Thu Hoai - Deputy Head of the Propaganda Department, Central Propaganda Department; Ms. Nguyen Quynh Lien - Member of the Presidium, Head of the Committee for Democracy - Social Supervision and Criticism, Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front; representatives of the Northern Provincial and Municipal Labor Federations, Central and equivalent Trade Unions, General Corporation Trade Unions under the General Confederation...
In his opening speech, Vice President of the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor Ngo Duy Hieu emphasized that over the past 10 years, the Trade Unions at all levels have done a good job of disseminating and propagating, organizing many activities of supervision and social criticism, contributing significantly to the good implementation of the task of representing, caring for, and protecting the rights of workers, detecting shortcomings and proposing amendments to many policies and laws.
At the workshop, delegates promoted democracy and intelligence to contribute opinions, clarify the achieved results, point out shortcomings, limitations and causes to propose solutions, and effectively implement the work of supervision and social criticism in the context that the Trade Union has proposed more institutions in Decision 217 in the Draft Trade Union Law.
In reality, Trade Unions at all levels have focused on implementing dissemination quite synchronously and extensively; seriously organizing the study, dissemination and issuance of many documents guiding Trade Unions at all levels to participate in developing and signing coordination programs, developing and issuing plans to implement supervision and social criticism on contents related to the functions and tasks of the Trade Union organization.
The content of supervision and social criticism on areas related to union members and workers such as implementation of the Grassroots Democracy Regulations, wages, incomes, labor contracts, Collective Labor Agreements, occupational safety and hygiene, Social Insurance, Health Insurance, Unemployment Insurance; supervision of employers' implementation of periodic and ad hoc salary increases and implementation of regulations on adjusting regional minimum wages according to the provisions of law; supervision of the signing and implementation of labor contracts, implementation of Collective Labor Agreements...
According to the report, after 10 years of implementation, the Trade Unions at all levels have issued 15,812 documents directing and guiding the Trade Unions to conduct social supervision and criticism. Trade unions at all levels organized 39,725 propaganda sessions to disseminate the content of Decision 217 with 1,905,999 participants, organized 12,839 training courses on social supervision and criticism for 282,962 Trade Union officials...
