Dong Nai: 500 free tickets to send poor migrant workers home for Tet

The Labour Federation of southern Dong Nai province will offer 500 free coach tickets, worth 1.2 million VND (52.8 USD) each, for poor migrant workers to go back home for the Tet (Lunar New Year) holiday.

The labour federation will also present 2,000 gift packages, worth 500,000 VND (22 USD) each, to impoverished labourers.

The free tickets will be given to workers from northern and central provinces who are living in difficulties and have not afforded returning home for Tet for many years, said the provincial labour federation’s Vice Chairman Tang Quoc Lap. 

The tickets will be distributed to districts and townships that have a large number of industrial parks and migrant workers, such as Bien Hoa city, Trang Bom and Long Thanh districts, he added.

According to Chairman of the Labour Federation of Trang Bom district Le Duc Thuy, the district chapter has also prepared 1,500 gift packages and 200 free coach tickets to give to disadvantaged workers.

This year, wages and Tet bonus of workers in Dong Nai have been significantly improved. Those working for FDI enterprises received 7.7 million VND (338.8 USD) in bonus in average each for the biggest public holiday of the year, compared to 5.8 million VND (255.2 USD) in 2017.

Meanwhile, the average Tet bonus of domestic private firms’ employees rose from 4.5 million VND (198 USD) per person to 7.3 million VND (321.2 USD) per person this year.

VNA

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