Vietnam: Tasks and powers of the Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs in labor and employment

1. Labor and wages:

- Provide guidelines for laws on labor contracts, labor discipline, material liability, dialogues at the workplace, collective bargaining, collective bargaining agreement, settlement of labor disputes and strikes;

- Provide guidelines for laws on minimum salaries, labor productivity standard, pay scale, salary scale, allowances, or payment of wages in any enterprise, agency, organization, cooperatives, household and individual that has employed labor in accordance with the Labor Code;

- Provide guidelines for labor law in respect of female employees, minor employees, elderly employees, disabled employees, employees being domestic workers and other employees;

- Provide guidelines for registration and management of operation of employee representatives as prescribed by labor law; discharge the duties of national-level contact point in terms of labor sector in the course that Vietnam entering into international trade agreements;

- Provide guidelines for wages, bonuses, and remuneration paid to employees and managers working in state-owned enterprises, state-invested enterprises.

2. Employment:

- Provide guidelines for regulations of law on employment; recruitment and management of Vietnamese employees and foreign employees working in Vietnam;

- Provide guidelines for and facilitate the collection, storing, consolidation, analysis, forecast, and announcement of labor market information in the sectors or fields in charge, other than labor market information being national statistical indicator. Promulgate regulations on management, use, and publishing of labor market information; build a network of information and data about labor market;

- Provide guidelines for implementation of law on organization and operation of employment services;

- Provide guidelines for formulation, appraisal, and publishing of national standards of vocational skills; regulations on issue of national vocational skill certificates;

- Provide guidelines for implementation of law on unemployment insurance;

- Provide guidelines for management and use of the National Employment Fund as prescribed by law.

View details in Decree No. 14/2017/NĐ-CP of Vietnam’s Government, effective from February 17, 2017.

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