Responsibility for preventing human trafficking in enterprises from July 2025

The Lao Dong Newspaper Legal Consulting Office replied:

Article 17 of the Law on Prevention and Combat of Human Trafficking 2024 (effective from July 1, 2025) stipulates the responsibility to prevent human trafficking in organizations, enterprises, and business and service establishments as follows:

Organizations, enterprises, and business and service establishments specified in Article 10 of this Law have the following responsibilities:

1. Commit to comply with the provisions of the law on prevention and combat of human trafficking;

2. mastering information about the service provider and notifying the competent authority when required to prevent human trafficking;

3. Signing a written labor contract with an employee, registering labor with a local labor management agency to prevent human trafficking;

4. Fully implement the requirements of competent authorities in inspecting and examining the prevention and combat of human trafficking for the activities of organizations, enterprises and establishments;

5. Coordinate and fully implement the requirements when competent authorities screen signs of being bought and sold for employees at organizations, enterprises, and facilities;

6. Proactively prevent and promptly report to competent authorities about acts showing signs of human trafficking.

Clause 1, Article 10 of the Law on Prevention and Combat of Human Trafficking 2024 stipulates that the following business and service activities must be managed and inspected to detect, prevent, and handle the exploitation to commit human trafficking:

a) Trading in karaoke, dance clubs, massage parades; casino business; telecommunications and Internet games business; telecommunications and Internet content services business; job services business, labor subcurses, study abroad consulting, sending Vietnamese workers to work abroad under contracts, recruiting foreigners to work in Vietnam; travel and accommodation services business;

b) Activities to support marriages between Vietnamese citizens and foreigners, and raising adopted children;

c) Other business activities and services are easily exploited for human trafficking.

Thus, enterprises are responsible according to the provisions of law for preventing and combating human trafficking.