Tet bonus fails to deliver festive cheer in major cities

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Workers of footwear maker Pouyuen Vietnam return home after work in June 2021. Photo by VnExpress/Huu Khoa

 

Some festive cheer is missing in major cities and industrial hubs, with scant to no Tet (Lunar New Year) bonus being paid to workers because of pandemic impacts.

 

With less than two weeks to go for Tet, the nation's most important festival, the number of enterprises reporting bonus payments is extremely small compared to the number of business registrations, reports from provinces and cities show.

 

For the previous Lunar New Year, more than 30,000 businesses nationwide reported Tet bonuses, with workers receiving an average at VND6.36 million, down 5 percent compared to the previous year, as the country struggled with the first year of Covid.

 

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