VietNamNet Bridge – Tuoi Tre has found 190 out of the 312 so called “high-tech” Chinese workers at Nhan Co Aluminum Plant in Dak R'Lap District in the Central Highlands Province of Dak Nong have been employed without any document to prove their qualifications.

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Chinese workers stay in a room in the construction site of the Nhan Co Aluminum Plant in Dak Nong Province. (Photo: Tuoi Tre)

Asked these 190 workers were indeed highly skilled, Bui Quang Tien, director of the plant’s project management board, said they had not presented any paper to show their qualifications.

The same is true with the 100 Chinese engineers and experts who are working at the plant, Tien said.

Asked if he could prove the working experience of these Chinese workers, an official of Chalieco which is contracted to hire these workers said the procedures were complicated and he could phone the companies where they had been working to get a confirmation or simply give them a test at the plant.

One of the workers, Tong Duc Khac from Hanan Province in China, who is hired to fold iron rods, told Tuoi Tre his job was simple and could be mastered without training. “I finished grade 10 and didn’t attend any vocational school,” he said.

For his part, another worker, Luu Tat Nien from the same province said without a high school diploma, he found it hard to get a well-paid job in China.

A Vietnamese worker, Toan, from Thanh Hoa Province, told Tuoi Tre that the Chinese workers employed at the plant were doing the same job as the Vietnamese workers.

As of yesterday, 178 Chinese workers at Nhan Co Aluminum Plant didn’t have any work permit either. Most of them have been contracted to work there for 4 months.

Nguyen Kim Tuan, who is in charge of the management of foreign workers, said that among Chalieco’s sub-contractors, only Metallurgy No. 6 Plant have obtained work permits for all of its workers.


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