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| NA passes revised Law on Trade Unions.__Photo: VNA |
Compared to its 2012 version, the revised Law on Trade Unions adds a provision on the rights of foreign employees who have foreign citizenships and currently working in Vietnam, and organizations of employees at enterprises to join the Vietnamese Trade Union.
Scheduled to take effect on July 1 this year, the 37-article Law stipulates four levels of the Vietnamese Trade Union, saying that the Vietnamese Trade Union is the sole organization representing employees at the national level in industrial relations.
The Law says that trade union organizations have rights and responsibilities to contribute opinions and social critics to draft legal documents, plans, programs, projects and schemes elaborated by state agencies that are directly related to the rights and interests of trade union members and employees.
Regarding the trade union fee, the Law maintains the trade union fee rate of 2 percent of the employee’s salary, and adding cases where an employee is eligible for exemption from, reduction or suspension from payment of, the trade union fee.
It also additionally provides the decentralization of powers to collect and distribute trade union funds by the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor (VGCL), the central level of the Vietnamese Trade Union. Its Article 31 states that the VGCL will issue standards, norms and regime of management and use of trade union funds after reaching agreement with the Government.- (VLLF)
