New regulations on ensuring for trade union officials

The Lao Dong Newspaper Legal Consulting Office replied:

Article 28 of the 2024 Trade Union Law (effective from July 1, 2025) stipulates the guarantee for trade union officials as follows:

1. In case the labor contract or employment contract expires and the employee is a non-professional union official who is in the union term, the labor contract or employment contract shall be extended until the end of the union term.

2. Employers are not allowed to unilaterally terminate labor contracts, work contracts, dismiss, force to quit or transfer to other jobs for non-professional union officials without written agreement from the direct superior union. In case of no agreement, the two sides must report to the competent authority or organization. After 30 days from the date of notification to the competent authority or organization, the employer has the right to decide and is responsible for its decision.

3. In case an employee who is a non-professional union official has his/her labor contract or employment contract terminated, forced to quit or illegally dismissed by the employer, the Trade Union is responsible for requesting the competent state agency to intervene or legally represent the employee in court to protect the legitimate rights and interests of the union official, except in cases where the trade union official refuses.

In case they cannot return to their old job, non-professional union officials will be supported by the Trade Union to find new jobs and during the period of job interruption, they will be supported with money from the trade union's financial resources according to the regulations of the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor.

Thus, from July 1, 2025, the guarantee for trade union cadres is regulated as above.