The municipal Department of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs has planned several activities, including holding New Year celebrations, upgrading war cemeteries and memorials, organizing meetings with veteran revolutionaries and heroic Vietnamese mothers, and presenting gifts to revolution contributors, poor households, people entitled to social protection, along with cadres, civil servants, public employees and workers in the State sectors.
Authorities of Ho Chi Minh City will present gifts to the people’s committees of 312 wards, communes, and townships so as to organize Tet activities for local residents.
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Workers receive Tet gifts at a program in Ho Chi Minh City. |
Nearly VND 927 billion will be allocated for those activities, rising over VND 76 billion from the Tet 2022, said Deputy Director of the department Huynh Le Nhu Trang.
Meanwhile, the municipal Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee has also built a plan under which more than VND 43 billion will be spent on caring for the disadvantaged, according to head of the committee’s movement division Duong Thi Huyen Tram.
The Ho Chi Minh City Federation of Labor has also been holding a number of activities to care for workers on the Tet occasion amid lay-offs and job losses facing employees of some businesses.
From January 6, it will send delegations to pay pre-Tet visits to some enterprises and present gifts to disadvantaged workers. New Year celebrations and gatherings of those unable to return to their hometowns for Tet will also be held.
These activities will be carried out at a total cost of about VND 140 billion, Vice President of the federation Pham Chi Tam noted.
Salary of workers in Ho Chi Minh City averaged over VND 11 million per month in 2022.
The average New Year bonus 2023 stood at VND 3.14 million, 7.37% lower than the survey in 2022. Meanwhile, Tet bonuses rose 45% to VND 12.88 million on average, according to the Department of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs.
Source: VNA