Circular 23/2017/TT-BLDTBXH provides guidelines on: (i) reception of application files for approval on demand for employment of foreign Employees; (ii) issuance and re-issuance of work permits; (iii) certification that foreign Employees working in Vietnam fall out the category of work permit issuance via electronic networks. Although this circular took effect on 02/10/2017, the authorities in…

Article 115.2 of the Law on Labour stipulates that foreign Employees working in Vietnam will enjoy a maximum of 12 days of public and New Year holidays, including 10 days of Vietnam’s public and Tet holidays, 01 traditional Tet holiday and 01 National Day of their own country. The Ministry of Labour, War Invalids and…

A CLA[1] is the written agreement between a labour collective and an Employer on the labour conditions the two parties have achieved through collective bargaining. According to the said definition, the CLA stipulates the general and basic working conditions which are applicable to all Employees, including both Vietnamese and foreign Employees. If in need of…

1.The forms in which foreigners can work Currently, the regulation on foreign Employees working in Vietnam has been governed in detail by the Labor Code and relevant guiding legal documents[1]. Accordingly, foreign citizens who come to Vietnam to work can only work under one of the following forms: Execute LCs; Internal secondment within an enterprise:…

LCs will be terminated due to their expiry except for the case of Employees as part-time trade union officials still serving their trade union tenure. In such case, signed LCs must be extended until end of their tenure[1]. However foreign Employees who are not entitled to join Vietnamese trade unions will not fall into this…