This morning (November 27), with the majority of delegates in favor, the National Assembly passed the Trade Union Law (amended).
The draft Trade Union Law (amended) approved includes 6 chapters with 37 articles, an increase of 4 articles compared to the current Law.
Compared with the current Law, the draft Trade Union Law (amended) has some basic new points as follows:
Vietnamese workers working without labor relations in Vietnam have the right to establish, join and operate trade unions. Supplementing the right to join and operate trade unions at grassroots trade unions (without the right to establish and not become trade union officials) of foreign workers working in Vietnam. Supplementing the right to join the Vietnamese Trade Union of the workers' organization at the enterprise;
Identify and clearly distinguish “Vietnam Trade Union” from “Vietnam General Confederation of Labor”, clearly stipulate 4 levels of trade unions. At the same time, affirm that “Vietnam Trade Union is the only organization representing workers at the national level in labor relations”;
Supplementing the Trade Union's right to supervision and social criticism;
Supplementing cases of exemption, reduction, and suspension of trade union fee payment and the Government regulating these cases after reaching agreement with the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor;
Continue to maintain the union fee contribution rate at 2%, along with that, amend and supplement regulations to clarify the principles of management and use of union finances; amend and supplement expenditure tasks of union finances; supplement regulations on the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor to implement the decentralization of collection and distribution of union funds; the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor promulgates standards, norms, spending regimes and management and use of union finances after reaching agreement with the Government;
Supplementing the responsibility of the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor to periodically report to the National Assembly on the situation of revenue, expenditure, management and use of trade union finances every two years. At the same time, supplementing the responsibility of the State Audit, periodically every two years, to conduct audits of the management and use of trade union finances and to conduct unscheduled audits at the request of the National Assembly and the National Assembly Standing Committee.
The Trade Union Law (amended) takes effect from July 1, 2025.
