Responsibilities of Trade Unions towards Employees

According to the Trade Union Law, the trade union has the rights and responsibilities to:

- Guide and advise employees on their rights and obligations when entering into and performing labor contracts or working contracts with employers.- Represent the collective workforce in negotiating, signing, and monitoring the implementation of collective labor agreements.- Participate with employers in the development and supervision of the implementation of salary scales, wage tables, labor norms, wage payment regulations, bonus regulations, and labor rules.- Engage in dialogue with employers to resolve issues related to the rights and obligations of employees.- Organize legal consultation activities for employees.- Participate with authorities, organizations, or individuals empowered to resolve labor disputes.- Petition competent organizations and state agencies to review and resolve matters where the legitimate rights and interests of the workforce or an individual employee are violated.- Represent the collective workforce in initiating lawsuits at the Court when the legitimate rights and interests of the collective workforce are violated; represent the individual employee in initiating lawsuits at the Court when their legitimate rights and interests are violated and upon their authorization.- Represent the collective workforce in participating in legal proceedings in labor, administrative, and bankruptcy cases to protect the legitimate rights and interests of the collective workforce and employees.- Organize and lead strikes in accordance with the law.

In addition to the rights and responsibilities towards employees, the trade union also has other rights and responsibilities, including:

- Participate in state management and socio-economic management;- Submit draft laws, ordinances, and proposals for policy and law-making;- Attend sessions, meetings, and conferences;- Participate in inspecting, examining, and supervising the activities of agencies, organizations, and enterprises;- Propagate, mobilize, and educate employees;- Develop trade union members and grassroots trade union organizations;- The rights and responsibilities of the directly superior trade union towards employees in agencies, organizations, or enterprises where a grassroots trade union has not yet been established.

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