Employment services provided by enterprises include providing counseling to employees and employers; recommending jobs, supplying and recruiting employees at the request of employers; and collecting, analyzing, forecasting and providing information about the labor market.

Question: (Ms. Ngo Thi Hai Chien from Bac Ninh province) I want to establish a company specializing in providing counseling to employees and employers in Viet Nam and foreign countries (like the RoK and Japan).

Whether the company is allowed to provide occupational counseling and introducing jobs for foreign enterprises which are not located in Viet Nam?

Answer: According to the Bac Ninh Department of Labor, Invalids, and Social Affairs  

Under Article 3, Decree 52/2014/ND-CP, dated May 23, 2014, employment services provided by enterprises 

1. Providing counseling to employees and employers, including:

a/ Occupational counseling for people to select occupations and training levels and places suitable to their abilities and expectations;

b/ Job counseling for people to select jobs suitable to their abilities and expectations; counseling on skills for passing recruitment exams; creating employment and seeking jobs at home and abroad;

c/ Counseling for employers on labor recruitment and management, human resource management and development, employment and job development.

2. Recommending jobs, supplying and recruiting employees at the request of employers, including:

a/ Recommending job seekers to employers who need to recruit labor;

b/ Supplying employees at the request of employers;

c/ Supplying and recommending employees to units and enterprises licensed to send Vietnamese abroad to work under labor contracts.  

3. Collecting, analyzing, forecasting and providing information about the labor market.

4. Providing training in job-seeking skills and vocational skills in accordance with law.

5. Implementing employment programs and projects.

Hence, to conduct medium activities and introduce jobs for foreign enterprises which are not located in Viet Nam, the company has to sign contracts with employers in accordance with the laws./.