The Ministry of Home Affairs has just issued Circular 08/2026/TT-BNV detailing and guiding the implementation of a number of articles of Decree No. 337/2025/ND-CP regulating electronic labor contracts (ECs) effective from July 1, 2026.
This Circular details and guides the issuance of e-LC IDs; issuance, locking, and unlocking accounts to access the e-LC Platform; connection with the e-LC Platform; management, use, and exploitation of the e-LC Platform; data and updating, exploiting, storing, and sharing data on the e-LC Platform.
Applicable subjects include: Employees, employers specified in Clause 1 and Clause 2, Article 3 of the 2019 Labor Code, concluding and implementing HĐLĐĐT.
eContract Supplier; Agencies, organizations, and other individuals related to the implementation of the provisions of this Circular.
According to the Circular, each E-LC, when sent to the E-LC Platform, if it ensures regulations, will be issued a unique ID, and will not overlap with any other E-LC.
IDs are issued once and do not change even in cases where E-Labor Contracts are amended, supplemented, suspended or terminated. Appendices, notices of suspension, and notices of termination of E-Labor Contracts are attached with the ID of that E-Labor Contract.
State agencies use IDs as digital data management codes for electronic labor contracts. The issuance of IDs for electronic labor contracts does not change the time of conclusion, content, and effective date of electronic labor contracts that have been concluded by the parties.
IDs are linked to display codes or lookup codes (according to administrative unit codes, employee identification codes, employer tax codes) built by the E-Labor Contract Platform, serving the needs of data exploitation, but these codes do not replace IDs.
The registration of accounts to access the E-LC Platform by employers and employees is carried out in accordance with the law on electronic identification and authentication, using electronic identification accounts issued by the National Electronic Identification and Authentication System (VNeID).
Employees use personal electronic identification accounts; employers who are organizations use organizational electronic identification accounts, employers who are individuals use personal electronic identification accounts.
In case the employer is an organization that cannot register an organization identification account according to the provisions of law on electronic identification and authentication, it is proposed that the Ministry of Home Affairs issue an access account to the E-Labor Contract Platform.
The HĐLĐĐT platform exploits the validity status of the electronic identification account provided by the National Electronic Identification and Authentication System.
In case the electronic identification account of the employer or employee is locked or changes its status according to the provisions of law, the E-Labor Contract Platform shall adjust the right to access and use the corresponding account based on the authentication results provided by the Electronic Identification and Authentication System.
