Many HCMC workers to stay back for Tet holiday

Workers at the Tan Thuan Export Processing Zone in HCMC's District 7 shop for Tet products at a mobile market as they have decided to stay back in the city for the holiday. Photo by VnExpress/An Phuong

Their incomes hard hit by pandemic related closures, many HCMC workers are choosing to stay back instead of returning home for the Tet (Lunar New Year) holiday.

So far, more than 420,000 migrant workers have decided to stay back in HCMC, reducing the usual rush back home as the Lunar New Year nears.

The number of workers registering to stay back has increases by more than 30 percent year-on-year, or by 130,000, Nguyen Thanh Do, head of the Policy and Law Department under the HCMC Labor Confederation, said Wednesday.

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