On June 16, at the 9th Session, the 15th National Assembly passed the Law on Employment (amended), with 8 chapters and 55 Articles. The law takes effect from January 1, 2026.
This revised Law on Employment has a new point related to unemployment insurance (UI) policies for employees.
The law stipulates the maximum unemployment insurance contribution rate for employees, employers and State-supported employees at 1% and assigns the Government to specify, instead of strictly regulating the contribution rate at 1% as currently, to ensure policy flexibility and increase the proactiveness of the Government's management, especially in cases of natural disasters, epidemics, crises, and economic recession while the Unemployment Insurance Fund has a surplus.
The law clearly stipulates that employers are responsible for paying the full amount of unemployment insurance; add the responsibility of employers in case they do not pay the full amount of unemployment insurance to employees when the labor contract or employment contract is terminated, they must pay the corresponding amount of unemployment insurance benefits that employees are entitled to according to the provisions of law.
Reducing unemployment insurance premiums is the employer's responsibility to pay to employees with disabilities, within no more than 12 months when recruiting and employing new employees with disabilities.
Unemployment insurance regimes are amended to expand the rights of participants
Unemployment insurance regimes still include 4 regimes. In addition, the Government is assigned to base on the actual situation and balance of the Unemployment Insurance Fund to regulate: reducing the unemployment insurance contribution rate; providing cash support or other support in case of crisis, economic recession, natural disasters, fires, external disasters or dangerous epidemics.
Vocational training support regime: Expanded to the regime of "Supporting workers in training, improving vocational skills" and adding regulations on food allowance support for workers during the training period.
Regarding unemployment benefits: Reduced waiting time to qualify for unemployment benefits for employees receiving unemployment benefits 5 working days earlier than the current regulations.
Amend the conditions for enjoying the regime to support employers in training, fostering, and improving vocational skills to maintain jobs for employees participating in unemployment insurance in a more accessible direction.
In addition, the Law on Employment (amended) also adds: Regulations on management, supervision of expenditures for organizing and operating unemployment insurance, fund management and investment activities of unemployment insurance funds; specific regulations on handling complaints and denunciations about unemployment insurance by social insurance agencies and public employment service organizations to serve as a legal basis in organizing implementation.
