The Vietnam General Confederation of Labor has just issued a quick report on the labor relations situation and the results of caring for union members and workers on the occasion of the Lunar New Year 2025.
Regarding the salary and Tet bonus situation in 2025, the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor said that according to the Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs, in 2024, the average salary of workers is estimated to reach 8.88 million VND/month, an increase of 4% compared to 2023.
The average salary at a single-member LLC with 100% state capital is 10.91 million VND/month; at a private enterprise it is 8.1 million VND/month; and at a foreign-invested enterprise it is 9.28 million VND/month.
Regarding the Lunar New Year bonus of At Ty 2025, the average bonus is 7.72 million VND, an increase of 13% compared to the Lunar New Year bonus of Giap Thin 2024, of which: Single-member LLCs with 100% charter capital held by the State reach 7.66 million VND/person; private enterprises reach 6.76 million VND/person; foreign-invested enterprises reach 8.24 million VND/person.
According to the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor, before the Lunar New Year 2025 (data calculated from December 2024 and January 2025), there were 7 labor disputes and collective work stoppages in 5 provinces and cities nationwide, a decrease of 8 cases compared to the period before the Lunar New Year 2024. These incidents mainly occurred at FDI enterprises. Collective work stoppages decreased in both nature and scale.
The main reason leading to labor disputes and work stoppages before Tet is because employees do not agree with the Tet bonus level of the enterprise, or changes in the way of calculating salary and bonus...
As soon as a dispute or collective work stoppage occurs, the Provincial and Municipal Labor Federations, district-level trade unions, industrial park and export processing zone trade unions proactively and promptly coordinate with relevant agencies such as the Department of Labor - Invalids and Social Affairs, the Police, the Industrial Park Management Board, and district-level authorities to directly guide, support, and resolve the matter.
According to the assessment of the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor, in general, through the process of dialogue and negotiation between employers and the labor collective with the support, guidance and witnessing of competent authorities, most of the labor requests were resolved in whole or in part by the employers, after which the labor collective returned to work normally.
