Accordingly, the Ministry of Home Affairs has just issued a Decision on the revocation of the License for operating services to send Vietnamese workers to work abroad under contracts for Son Ha International Investment and Cooperation Joint Stock Company.
According to the decision, the Ministry of Home Affairs revokes the License for operating services to send Vietnamese workers to work abroad under contract No. 33/LDTBXH-GP issued on August 2, 2024 to this enterprise according to the provisions of point d, clause 2, Article 16 of the Law on Vietnamese Workers going to work abroad under contract.
The reason for the recall is that the enterprise has not organized the management and protection of the legitimate rights and interests of workers they send to work abroad as prescribed in point e, clause 2, Article 26 of this law, leading to serious material and spiritual damage to workers.
The Ministry of Home Affairs also requires businesses to fulfill their responsibilities as stipulated in Article 27 of the Law on Vietnamese Workers going to work abroad under contract.
At the end of April 2026, the Department of Overseas Labor Management (Ministry of Home Affairs) also issued a Decision to administratively sanction this enterprise with a fine amount of up to 400 million VND.
The identified violations include: Failure to post or not update when there are changes on the enterprise's electronic information page according to regulations on information on the list of professional staff, business locations, and facilities serving orientation education activities for employees before going to work abroad of the enterprise.
Not reporting or reporting incompletely or inaccurately about the situation of service activities to send Vietnamese workers to work abroad under contracts according to the provisions of law.
Not organizing orientation education for 3 workers before going to work abroad; not terminating the contract to send workers to work abroad with 2 workers, within 180 days from the date of termination of the labor contract as prescribed.
The content of the contract to send workers to work abroad is not consistent with the labor supply contract registered with the Department of Overseas Labor Management; preparing labor sources to work in Taiwan (China) and Japan without the written approval of the Ministry of Home Affairs.
On the other hand, this enterprise collected service fees from workers not in accordance with regulations, exceeding the service fee ceiling for 3 workers going to work in Taiwan (China).
Failure to organize management and protection of the legitimate rights and interests of workers sent abroad by businesses.
In addition to being administratively sanctioned, this enterprise also suffered an additional penalty of being suspended from performing the labor supply contract for 2 months; suspended from preparing labor sources for 18 months.
