The Ministry of Labour, War Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA) is working on a draft regulation, requiring foreign workers in Vietnam to pay social insurance in the future, Dat Viet newspaper reported Friday.
The MoLISA will collect ideas widely for the regulation, deputy minister Pham Minh Huan said.
Under the Vietnamese government's decree effective on July 1 of 2009, foreign workers paid 3 percent of their monthly salary to health insurance. Since January 1, 2010, foreign workers have to pay 4.5 percent of their monthly salary to health insurance.
Though Vietnam has yet allowed the recruitment of foreign workers, some 90,000 foreign workers are working there, including 5,000 workers from Africa and the Middle East who arrived during 2007 and 2008.
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