Accordingly, in the case where employees have labor contracts, receive salaries in cash and have a salary table confirmed by the company, the investor of the CT3 Kim Chung social housing project still requires the submission of salary statement table for all employees in the company for comparison.
Mr. Le Dinh Nam (character's name has been changed) - residing in Hanoi - said that the couple currently have labor contracts and pay full insurance. He received his salary through a bank account, so he can make a statement for the last 12 months as requested by the investor. However, his wife is in the group of receiving cash salary, paid monthly by the company with a payment voucher, salary table and confirmed by the company.
"In the case of receiving cash salary, it was enough to have just a salary table, salary payment receipt and confirmation from the company. However, the investor requires the most recent 12-month salary table of all employees in my wife's company, from the director to the security guard, to be signed and stamped for them to check. In my opinion, it is a form of confidential data, no business accepts to provide it" - Mr. Nam said.
He said that when his wife brought this request to discuss with the accountant, the company refused directly, saying that "it could never be granted" because it was related to personal data security and business secrets. This has put his family in a deadlock.
According to Mr. Nam, for workers receiving salaries through accounts, investors need to make a 12-month statement from the company account to the personal account to be able to do it, even though many people report that the statement is very thick, sometimes up to hundreds of pages because the entire transaction must be printed during that time. However, in the case of receiving cash salary like his wife, the investor does not accept the individual salary table, but is forced to have a salary table of "the whole agency".
"For example, my wife works at company A, the company has 100 employees and has to print and stamp the 12-month salary table of all 100 people to submit to the investor. The accountant said that no company would provide such documents, because it was contrary to the company's information security regulations" - Mr. Nam was upset.
According to him, if not clarified and resolved, such "sky-high" criteria could become a form of "child license", invisible, causing difficulties for workers, especially those who receive cash salaries, even if they have contracts, pay insurance, and have full salary payment vouchers, but still cannot prove their income according to the "form" required by the investor.
According to records, not only Mr. Nam's case, many people on social networking groups also reported being asked to declare the salary table of the entire company when applying to buy social housing.
Speaking with Lao Dong, Mr. Nguyen Thanh Trung - Director of the Project Management Board, representative of the handico & Viglacera Investment consortium - affirmed that the investor complied with State regulations.
Citing, Mr. Trung said that in Section 9, form 04 of Circular 05/2024 and Section 9, form 01a of Circular 32/2025, both clearly stated: Photo: Salary table/oaires for the 12 consecutive months up to the time of confirmation by the competent authority.
"The investor is asking the authorities about solutions for the people" - Mr. Trung said.
Comparing with legal regulations, there is currently no regulation requiring people to make a statement of the salary table of the entire company as evidence when submitting documents to buy social housing.
Dr. LS Dang Van Cuong (Chieu Phap Law Office, Hanoi Bar Association) said: according to regulations, the photo of the salary and wages table is the salary confirmation, not the bank account statement.
"Only if the enterprise has a salary table or a document confirming income is enough, as long as there is document from the enterprise confirming how much salary the employee receives" - Lawyer Dang Van Cuong shared.
Pursuant to Article 96 of the 2019 Labor Code, enterprises are allowed to pay salaries by bank transfer or in cash.
In case the enterprise pays the salary in cash and has confirmed the salary level, the employee's file is considered valid, and the investor is required to receive it according to regulations.
If the investor refuses the application on the grounds that the employee must have a salary statement via a bank account or a salary table statement from the entire company, this is a requirement that is not in accordance with the law.
According to lawyer Cuong, in this situation, employees have the right to submit a petition to the competent authority for consideration and settlement according to regulations; they can submit a petition to the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee where the project is located for consideration and handling.
It is known that the CT3 Building project belongs to the investment project to build a social housing area in the Kim Chung New Urban Area, invested by the Hanoi Housing Investment and Development Corporation and Viglacera Corporation - JSC. Open to receive the first phase of application from November 17, 2025 to January 3, 2026.
The total number of apartments in CT3 building is 1,104, including 929 social housing units and 175 commercial apartments. The provisional selling price of social housing apartments (including VAT and maintenance fees) is VND 18,400,000/m2.
