Regulations on postpartum health recovery from July 2025

The Lao Dong Newspaper Legal Consulting Office replied:

Article 60 of the Law on Social Insurance 2024 (effective from July 2025) stipulates the promotion of health after pregnancy as follows:

1. Within 30 days from the date of termination of maternity leave as prescribed in Article 52, Clause 1 or Clause 4, Article 53, Point a, Clause 3, Article 54 of this Law, female employees who have not recovered their health are entitled to rest and recover their health.

The time for continuous strength recovery and recovery includes holidays, Tet, and weekly days off. In case there is a time to rest and recover health from the end of the previous year to the beginning of the following year, that time off will be counted for the previous year.

2. Time to resort and restore health prescribed in Clause 1 of this Article is decided by the employer and the Executive Committee of the grassroots trade union; In case the two parties have different opinions, the employer shall decide the number of holidays on the basis of the proposal of the grassroots trade union executive committee, in case the employer does not have a grassroots trade union, it is decided by the employer. The maximum resort and restoration time is prescribed as follows:

a) 10 days for female employees who have one child or more;

b) 07 days for female employees who have to undergo surgery;

c) 05 days for other cases.

3. The benefit for a day of rest and recovery after pregnancy is 30% of the reference level.

4. The provisions in Clauses 1, 2 and 3 of this Article shall not apply to female employees returning to work before the end of the maternity leave regime as prescribed in Clause 1, Article 53 of this Law.

5. The Minister of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs (now the Ministry of Home Affairs - PV) stipulates the calculation and determination of conditions for each case of rest and health recovery after pregnancy.

Thus, from July 2025, the regime for exercise and health recovery after pregnancy is regulated as above.