ABSTRACT
The 1990s, perhaps no problem is more pressing in Vietnam than that of employment. The overall role of the state in labour issues should include the tasks. The state: should plan and coordinate labour policies and programmes within the framework of its overall economic development objectives and programmes; must design investment plans that will satisfy Vietnam's needs in terms of technical-technological and socio-economic infrastructure; must establish an appropriate legal system to facilitate activities of modern market-oriented economies; should establish vocational education and job training and other activities to encourage entrepreneurship; should organize a network that collects and diffuses economic, marketing and labour information. The chapter concludes the issues of labour and employment in Vietnam compose an urgent and complex problem, which cannot solved overnight. The gives the state's daring renovation process, Doi Moi, believes Vietnam able to address these inter-related issues in a way that will prove highly favourable to the country's socioeconomic development over the decade.
