On January 3, 2023, the Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs of Vietnam issued Circular 01/2023/TT-BLDTBXH stipulating the adjustment of salary and monthly income for which social insurance premiums have been paid of Vietnamese employees. The subjects eligible for adjustment of monthly salary on which social insurance premiums are based in Vietnam according…
Employees participating in the social insurance regime in Vietnam when suffering from serious or especially dangerous diseases will receive support from the Vietnamese state. One of those supports is the ability and right to withdraw lump sum social insurance immediately without having to wait at least 1 year since quitting the latest job. In the…
Labor discipline is a system of deterrent sanctions so that employees can comply with the labor rules set by the enterprise, thereby working and producing effectively to serve the development of the enterprise and country. Therefore, when employees violate discipline at work, they will be punished for their violation according to the Labor Code and…
Every occasion near Tet, the issue of the Tet bonus, 13th month salary is often mentioned by society. During the Lunar New Year in early 2022, the strike of thousands of factory employees of Pouchen Vietnam Company due to the issue of low Tet bonus aroused many debates in society. So, is it legal to…
Article 124 Section 1 Chapter VIII Labor Code 2019 No. 45/2019/QH14 (“Labor Code 2019”) prescribes 4 forms of handling violations of labor discipline in Vietnam, including Reprimand, Deferment of pay rise for up to 6 months, Demotion, or Dismissal. In the following article, ASL LAW will summarize the main characteristics of the 4 forms of…
According to Article 54 of the Law on Social Insurance 2014, as amended by Point a, Clause 1, Article 219 of the Labor Code 2019, employees who have reached the retirement age and have paid social insurance premiums for full 20 years or more will be entitled to a pension. The pension received each month…
The unemployment benefit system in Vietnam was put into operation to help employees have a small amount of monetary support during the time when they cannot find a job after leaving their old company. However, despite many advantages, since being put into operation, the mechanisms for paying unemployment benefits are still too complicated, making it…
After a period of discussion and voting, the Vietnam National Assembly officially approved the proposal to increase the base salary from 1.49 million VND to 1.8 million VND and also fixed the effective date of the policy. Thereby, Vietnam’s base salary will officially increase to 1.8 million VND from July 2023, not January 2023 as…
Doctors are a specific group of professionals in Vietnam as well as in most other countries around the world. Currently, on Vietnamese social networks, there is a lot of unknown information about a doctor receiving only 18,600 VND for an entire night of 8 hours to fight the epidemic at frontline hospitals in Vietnam. Why…
The minimum wage is the lowest wage, differentiated by region, applicable to employees in Vietnam. However, in Vietnam and most countries around the world, ordinary employees have 2 popular working options: working in the public sector for the state and working in the private sector for Business. The minimum wage as understood by the majority…