Legal Updates

Issuing and registering internal labor regulations

Internal Labor Regulations (hereinafter referred to as “ILRs”) is a document issued by an employer, in which its provisions create grounds for employment relationships that employees must implement. According to the Labor Code 2019, ILRs have the following main characteristics: (i) having a form of a document or other forms depending on the number of […]

Validity of commercial contracts

Contract[1] is a common document in the course of business activities, recording the agreement between the parties on the establishment, change, or termination of their rights and obligations. However, not all of the commercial contracts entered into by the parties are valid. Under the Civil Code of Vietnam (the “Civil Code 2015“), contract is a […]

Frequent legal compliance issues of enterprises in Vietnam

In the course of advising enterprises in Vietnam for their business and conducting legal due diligence on target companies in M&A transactions, we found some legal issues below that many enterprises in Vietnam are frequently involved in. These legal issues construe administrative violations by the Company which are subject to certain fines and sanctions under […]

Impact of the minimum wage increase on employers

After more than 2 years of applying Decree 90/2019/ND-CP regarding the regional minimum wage for employees working under labour contracts, recently, the Vietnamese Government promulgate Decree 38/2022/ND-CP to raise it by 6% which has come into effect on July 1, 2022. (Unit: VND/month) This growth will affect the following labour issues which the employers should […]