When taking disciplinary action, the employer may not impose more than one disciplinary measure for one violation of internal labor regulations. Where an employee simultaneously commits more than one violation of internal labor regulations, he/she shall be subjected to the heaviest disciplinary measure for the most serious violation.

In this article, lawyers from Asia Legal, a business law firm operating in Vietnam, point out frequent legal issues of enterprises in the country, which mostly stem from their administrative violations and consequently will result in fines and sanctions under the relevant regulations.

Disciplinary procedures are used primarily to help employees to improve. They also provide a clear framework for both employers and employees to assist in the efficient and systematic resolution of disciplinary issues. The employment legislation contains various rules governing this type of procedures that this article tries to point out.

President Ho Chi Minh’s legislative ideology has shed light on the building and development of Vietnam’s legal system in the period of “doi moi” (renewal), accelerated national industrialization and modernization as well as extensive and intensive international integration for building a society in which the people are prosperous and the country is strong, democratic, equitable and civilized.

From May 1 next year, the new Labor Code (the Code) will take effect, superseding the 1994 Labor Code (amended and supplemented in 2002, 2006 and 2007).

A strategy for educational development through 2020 has been drafted, based on progress over the last eight years and aiming for fundamental changes in education in the next decade.

Since Vietnam embarked upon “doi moi dat nuoc” (national renewal), shifting to build a market economy with different forms of ownership and various economic sectors, incrementally democratizing social life and integrating itself into the international community, labor relations have increasingly developed and become diversified, entailing more and more complicated labor disputes. This situation requires better and better legal institutions on dispute settlement.

Labor relations at foreign-invested enterprises have not always gone smoothly despite improvements in recent years, researchers of the Worker and Trade Union Institute revealed, citing a rising number of strikes.