Legal Counselling

Conditions for Vietnamese workers to work abroad under contracts with enterprises

11:52, 05/09/2010

Working abroad is a specialized form of labor that requires strict control and management to ensure the rights and benefits of Vietnamese workers. Vietnamese nationals who work abroad under contracts with enterprises, non-business organizations, organizations or individuals making offshore investment must meet the following conditions:

- Having full civil act capacity.

- Willing to work abroad.

- Observing law and having good moral qualities.

- Having good health as provided for by Vietnamese law and required by the host country.

- Meeting requirements on foreign language skills, technical and professional qualifications and other conditions of the workers-receiving country.

- Having a certificate of possession of necessary knowledge.

- Being not banned from exiting Vietnam under Vietnamese law.

Workers willing to work abroad shall submit relevant dossiers to enterprises, non-business organizations, offshore-investing organizations or individuals that send them abroad, which include:

- An application for working abroad;

- A curriculum vitae certified by the People's Committee of the commune, ward or township where he/she resides or by the agency, organization or unit managing him/her with its comments on his/her sense of observing law and morality;

- A health certificate granted by a competent medical establishment;

- Diplomas or certificates of foreign language, expertise and job skills and a certificate of possession of necessary knowledge;

- Other papers as required by the worker-receiving party.

View more details at the Law on Vietnamese guest workers 2006 of Vietnam, effective from July 01, 2007.

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