Vietnam – Worker’s Rights
I. GUIDING PRINCIPLES AND OBJECTIVES
2. Objectives
a) Overall objectives
Raising awareness and building capacity; reviewing and improving policies and laws and improving the effectiveness of the implementation of policies and laws (including improving efficiency and promoting access to remedies) in order to promote RBP in Viet Nam for the period of 2023-2027 to enhance the positive impacts and minimize the negative ones of economic and business development activities on society and the environment (focusing on investment and environment; protecting the legitimate rights and interests of workers, consumers and vulnerable groups), thereby contributing to promoting the circular economy and improving Viet Nam’s socialist-oriented market economy.
II. TASKS AND ACTIONS
2. Policy and law improvement
b) In labor
– Reviewing, amending, supplementing and promulgating laws and regulations concerning the promotion and protection of labor rights, welfare of employees in industrial relations and employment in line with international labor standards to which Viet Nam is a party (including Law on Safety and Occupational Hygiene, Law on Social Insurance, Law on Employment and their guiding instruments)
+ Lead agency: Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs
+ Coordinating agencies: Ministries, ministerial-level agencies, government-attached agencies and other relevant agencies
+ Outputs: Review reports, suggestions and recommendations (if any)
+ Deadline: 2025
– Studying and drafting policies on job protection, retraining and protection of employees in the relationship with platform-providing companies in the context of digitalization;
+ Lead agency: Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs
+ Coordinating agencies: Ministries, ministerial-level agencies, governmental agencies and other relevant agencies.
+ Outputs: Review report and proposals and recommendations (if any).
+ Deadline: 2025.
– Studying, amending, supplementing or promulgating the Law on Trade union and its guiding instruments
+ Lead agency: Viet Nam General Confederation of Labor;
+ Coordinating agencies: Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs, ministries, ministerial-level agencies, governmental agencies and other relevant agencies;
+ Outputs: Law on Trade Union (amended) and its guiding documents (if any);
+ Deadline: 2027.