TO PROVIDE GUIDANCE ON MID-SHIFT MEALS FOR WORKERS IN INDUSTRIAL PARKS
This direction is stipulated by the Prime Minister in the Directive No. 16/CT-TTg dated June 14, 2021 on ensuring sustainable employment and improving living standards and working conditions for workers.
Accordingly, the Prime Minister requests the Ministry of Health to focus on stepping up the implementation of the Prime Minister’s Decision No. 659/QD-TTg of May 20, 2020, promulgating the program on improvement of health care for workers and occupational disease prevention in the 2020 - 2030 period; provide guidance on mid-shift meals for workers in industrial parks and export processing zones; formulate regulations on minimum calories intake per meal and meal allowance for particular categories of workers; etc.
Besides, the State Bank of Vietnam shall direct credit institutions and the Vietnam Bank for Social Policies to continue implementing credit programs and policies for creating jobs for improving living standards of workers; focus on guiding the implementation of support policies on provision of loans to employers for making severance pay for their employees, and rehabilitate their production heavily affected by the Covid-19 pandemic.
The Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs shall grasp actual labor and employment crises due to the Covid-19 pandemic for synchronous supplementation, modification and improvement of mechanisms and policies on labor, employment, wages, social insurance, occupational safety and health; provide advices on reduction of normal working hours as suitable to the practical socio-economic development; expeditiously finalize and submit to competent authorities for enactment support policies for workers and enterprises to surmount impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic, etc.
