Representative office issues
Question: Our company want to employ one people in Vietnam for liaison/ seeking business opportunity.
Is it necessary for us to set up a RO for this purpose?
What are the details we need to beware if we need to set up a RO/hiring people(i.e. employment contract(MOLISA), tax issues (Personal Income...
Employee working in household
Articles 179 to 183 of the Vietnam Labor Code deals with the provisions related to employees working in the household[...]
Process of applying for Working permit
Question: I'm Peter from UK, I'm trying to solve an issue with the process of applying for Working permit - since november 13th all teaching certificates must be legalized but the UK Embassy does not legalize , they told me to legalize in UK but now i am in...
Compulsory insurance of employees and employers in Vietnam
Q: We are a foreign invested company in Vietnam and our company has one employee (58 years old) and another one (nearly 50 years old), does our company have to participate compulsory insurance for these employees?
A: Regarding to your question, we would like to advise as follows:
1.For the people...
To increase by 8% of pensions, monthly allowances for subjects for officers
On July 15, 2016, the Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs issued the Circular No. 23/2016/TT-BLDTBXH guiding the adjustment of pensions, social insurance allowances and monthly allowances according to the Decree No. 55/2016/ND-CP dated June 15, 2016 of the Government.
In accordance with the regulations in this Circular, to increase...
Social insurance and Medical insurance scheme of foreign workers in Vietnam
Question: Dear lawyers, currently, my company has employees who are foreign workers. However, I still haven't fully understood the social insurance and health insurance benefits that foreign workers are entitled to. Specifically: sickness, retirement, social insurance for the elderly and occupational accidents, what are the benefits and compensations? Hope you...
Holiday & Tet Leave
According to Article 115 of the Code, the employee shall be entitled to the following public holidays and the same shall be fully paid leave[...]
Should the company still have to pay salary for lockdown period?
Question: We want to ask 2 case:
1 – The company has to cease the working due to lockdown because of Covid
2 – The employee can not come to work due to they have to be lockdown
Should the company still have to pay salary for lockdown period?
Answer: We would like...
Labour law query
Client: I am contacting you from a London based company with a labour law query.
My query relates to the validity/ acceptance of an Independent Contractor operating for GSM in Vietnam.
Would you be able to assist with this type of query ?
If you are able to provide advice, please confirm...
Allownces under Labor Code
In addition to Salary, the Employer can pay allowance to Employee. Rate and type of each allowance shall be very much depended on mutual agreement between Employee and Employer[...]

















