Provincial Labor Federation seeks comments on the revised Law on Employment

Attending the event were representatives of relevant departments, agencies and comrades in the Standing Committee of the Provincial Federation of Labor.

Comrade Nguyen Chi Cong - Vice Chairman of the Provincial Labor Federation chaired the workshop.

Overview of the event. Photo: Diep Thanh.

In order to concretize the 2013 Constitution and institutionalize the policies, guidelines, viewpoints and orientations for national development in each period, the Employment Law No. 38/2013/QH13 was passed by the 11th National Assembly of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, 6th session on November 16, 2013, effective from January 1, 2015.

This is the first legal document that fully regulates and comprehensively regulates employment and labor market relations, expands coverage, and regulates labor and employment policies to the entire workforce, including both contracted and uncontracted workers. It can be said that the Employment Law is an important basis for developing policies.support workers, including vulnerable workers, poor workers, rural workers, unemployed people and increasing employment opportunities for workers in the informal sector, supporting workers in finding jobs, supporting improving the quality of human resources, ensuring part of income through unemployment insurance policies...

Fully aware of the impact of the Employment Law on workers, union officials have had many concerns surrounding the changes in the law. Photo: Diep Thanh

The workshop received 11 quality comments from delegates. Photo: Diep Thanh

However, through the implementation process, the Law on Employment has revealed difficulties, limitations, and inadequacies, requiring early research, amendment, and supplementation, stemming from four reasons: Institutionalizing the viewpoints, guidelines, and policies of the Party and State on employment; Ensuring the unity and synchronization of the legal system, in accordance with standards, practices, and commitments in the field of employment; Overcoming existing shortcomings, limitations, and inadequacies in the practical implementation of the Law on Employment; Current situation and trends of the Vietnamese labor market, and new requirements for improving the capacity and effectiveness of State management in the field of employment.

In this revision, the revised Law on Employment aims to institutionalize the Party's policies and guidelines, ensuring consistency, unity and suitability of the legal system under the management, control and regulation of the State. At the same time, it meets the needs of socio-economic development, in line with international commitments that Vietnam participates in, contributing to promoting the development of the labor market, towards ensuring sustainable employment for all workers.

Comrade Nguyen Chi Cong - Vice Chairman of the Provincial Labor Federation concluded the workshop. Photo: Diep Thanh

Attending the workshop, delegates expressed their high agreement with the draft's problem-posing and had many comments.commentsfor drafts in each specialized field and groups of issues of concern, including groups of issues related to Unemployment Insurance, vocational training age, national vocational certificates, etc.

Concluding the workshop, Comrade Nguyen Chi Cong - Vice Chairman of the Provincial Labor Federation accepted the comments, highly appreciated and thanked the constructive spirit of the participating units. He affirmed that the comments from practice will contribute to bringing life into the law, directly affecting the rights and interests of workers.