As Lao Dong Newspaper has reported, the total number of workers reflecting being owed salaries by Phuc Hung Mechanical and Electrical Joint Stock Company is 26, the total amount owed is 1,444,691,158 VND. These people have all terminated labor contracts with the company.
Before the Lunar New Year 2026, the company transferred money to pay part of the owed salary to employees. Mr. To Hong Chung - a worker who used to work at Phuc Hung Mechanical and Electrical Joint Stock Company - said that his statistics and summaries show that the total amount of salary the company has transferred to employees is 290,795,572 VND, and still owes employees 1,153,895,586 VND.
Recently, Mr. To Hong Chung sent a petition to the Hanoi City Department of Home Affairs, the content of the petition is that Phuc Hung Mechanical and Electrical Joint Stock Company did not pay his salary and meal allowance.
In the reply document, the Department of Home Affairs said that, in comparison with the content of Mr. To Hong Chung's petition and based on legal regulations, the Department of Home Affairs guided Mr. To Hong Chung to send a request to resolve labor disputes to competent authorities to be resolved through the mediation procedure of the labor mediator as prescribed in Section 1 and Section 2 of Chapter XIV of the 2019 Labor Code.
The address for sending applications for mediation of labor disputes shall be implemented according to the Regulations on management of labor mediators of the Hanoi City People's Committee: In case labor disputes occur in organizations, units, and enterprises with a scale of 1,000 employees or more, employees shall send applications for mediation to the Hanoi City Department of Home Affairs.
In case labor disputes occur at organizations, units, and enterprises with a scale of less than 1,000 workers, employees shall send a petition to the Department of Culture and Social Affairs under the People's Committee of the commune or ward where the agency, organization, unit, or enterprise is headquartered.
Mr. To Hong Chung said that from this response from the Hanoi City Department of Home Affairs, he sent the application directly and by post to the Department of Culture and Social Affairs under the People's Committee of Dai Mo Ward, Hanoi City (where the company is headquartered).
On March 19, a reporter from Lao Dong Newspaper continued to text the phone number of Mr. Nguyen Ngoc Duong - Chairman of the Board of Directors of the company - asking about the handling of workers' owed salaries and was informed that a part had been handled before Tet. Regarding the remaining debt, Mr. Nguyen Ngoc Duong said: The company is facing difficulties, engineers have quit their jobs, so they cannot get money from the investor. However, Mr. To Hong Chung did not accept this reason.
According to the provisions of Article 94 and Article 97 of the 2019 Labor Code, employers must pay salaries directly, fully, and on time to employees. In cases where for force majeure reasons, employers have taken all measures to remedy, but cannot pay salaries on time, they must not be delayed more than 30 days; if salary payment is delayed by 15 days or more, employers must compensate employees with an amount of money at least equal to the interest of the delayed payment amount calculated according to the interest rate for one-month term deposits announced by the bank where the employer opens a salary payment account for employees at the time of payment.
