Vietnam General Confederation of Labour: Standards for members of executive boards and chairpersons of grassroots trade unions

According to the Guidelines No. 28/HD-TLĐ, conditions and standards for members of executive boards and chairpersons of grassroots trade unions are prescribed as following:

General standards:

- Have strong political spirit and sufficient capability and passion for trade union activities; be innovative and enterprising, have good reputation, working methods and capacity to assemble a large number of trade union members, workers and public employees; aim to protect legitimate rights and interests of trade union members, workers and public employees.

- Have a sense of responsibility; be sufficiently healthy to complete their duties; have moral values and healthy, honest and simple lifestyle; strive to fight corruption and wastefulness; not involved in wastefulness, corruption or corruption cover-up.

Specific conditions and standards:

- Must work at the workplace for at least one more tenure of the trade union.

- Any persons who is nominated or runs for a position in the executive board of a grassroots trade union from the second time onwards must work at the workplace for at least half of the next tenure of the trade union (if the person does not work at the workplace for as long as half of the next tenure, their case shall be considered and decided by the superior trade union and Party Executive Committee).

- The above mentioned conditions are applicable to the position of full-time trade union official only; nominations for the position of part-time trade union official shall be considered based on nominations by trade union members (for grassroots trade unions of enterprises not owned by the State and foreign-invested enterprises)

Guidelines No. 28/HD-TLĐ issued on June 24, 2021.

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