When issuing the salary scale and salary table, Employers should pay attention to the following: The salary levels of the jobs or titles with heavy, harmful, dangerous working conditions or extremely heavy, harmful, dangerous working conditions must be at least 5% or 7% higher than the salary levels of the jobs or titles with the…

The salary serving as the basis for payment of compulsory insurance premiums includes the salary, allowances and other additional amounts as prescribed by labour law[1]. Pursuant to the guiding documents, allowances and other additional amounts do not include bonuses[2]. From the analysis above, the salary serving as the basis for payment of compulsory insurance premiums…

Pursuant to Decree 07/2016/NĐ-CP of the Government providing for the operations of representative offices and branches of foreign companies in Vietnam, the head of a representative office cannot be the legal representative of an economic organisation established under the law of Vietnam[1]. Therefore, if a person is currently the head of a representative office, and…

In the period of training and re-training fire prevention and fighting skills, Employees who are members of the grassroots fire prevention and fighting team will enjoy what kinds of allowance? Will these allowances be added to the salary as a basis to pay compulsory SI premiums? As prescribed by labour law, when participating in fire…

Upon taking annual leave, if Employees spend any time travelling by long distance vehicle, that period may be considered for addition to the annual leave as agreed in the LC. Conditions for the travel time to be added The travel time will be added to Employees’ annual leave (apart from fully paid annual leave days…