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Labour Code of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam
National Assembly
Vietnam's highest representative body and the only organ with constitutional and legislative power. It enacts and amends the Constitution and laws, decides major national policy and the state budget, and exercises supreme oversight over all state activity; its deputies are elected nationwide.
Document Type | Document Number | Recorded status | Date Effective | Issuing Body | Official Source URL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Code | No longer in effect | 01/01/1995 | National Assembly | https://phapluat.gov.vn/legal-documents/10427 |
Key provisions
Regulates rights and obligations of employees and employers and State management of labour
Provides for labour Contract as basis for employment, including types, conclusion, performance, suspension and termination
Provides for collective agreement and workplace dialogue through representative organisations
Sets regimes for wages, working time, rest time, labour discipline, and occupational safety and hygiene
Provides for social insurance, special protection for female and juvenile labour, and procedures for settlement of labour disputes and strikes
Summary
Identification and legal basis
The document is presented as BO LUAT LAO DONG CUA NUOC CONG HOA XA HOI CHU NGHIA VIET NAM (Labour Code of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam), with the document number shown as "Khong so" (no number given in the excerpt). The excerpt does not state the promulgating body, promulgation date, or effective date. The preamble indicates the Code inherits and develops Vietnamese labour legislation since the August Revolution of 1945 and institutionalises the renewal line of the Communist Party of Vietnam and the Constitution.
Scope and application
As described in the preamble and in Articles 1 to 2 (truncated in the excerpt), the Code regulates the rights and obligations of employees and employers, labour standards, and principles of labour utilisation and management. It is stated to apply to labour relations in general, with Article 2 and related provisions outlining the subjects governed. The excerpt does not provide the full list of covered entities or any exclusions.
Principal contents indicated by the excerpt
The table of contents visible in the excerpt shows the Code covers the full range of individual and collective labour relations. Identifiable chapters and articles include: employment and vocational training (Articles 18-25), labour Contract (Articles 26-43), collective agreement (Articles 44-54), wages (Articles 55-67), working time and rest time (Articles 68-81), labour discipline and material responsibility (Articles 82-94), occupational safety and hygiene (Articles 95-108), special provisions for female labour, juvenile labour and other types of labour (Articles 110-139), social insurance (Articles 141-150), and settlement of labour disputes and strikes (Articles 155-170). The text of most articles is truncated as "[...]" in the supplied excerpt, so substantive obligations, thresholds, and procedures cannot be quoted in detail.
Effect and transition
The supplied excerpt does not contain the final provisions on effective date, expiry, or amendment of earlier instruments. It cites internal cross-references to other articles of the same Code (for example Articles 38, 41, 42, 60, 66, 85-90, 111-112, 141, 144) but no external law is named as being amended, replaced or superseded in the visible portion. A complete assessment of effect, transition and repeal would require the full promulgated text.
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