The new version of the Labor Law stipulates that daily working hours shall not exceed eight hours, and overtime hours shall not exceed 300 hours within a year.
VNA Hanoi – The 8th session of the 14th National Assembly on November 20 The Labor Law (Amendment) was passed with an approval rate of 90.06%.
The “Labor Law (Amendment)” includes 17 chapters and 220 articles, which clearly stipulate labor standards; workers, employers, organizations representing workers, organizations representing employers rights, obligations and responsibilities; state management of labor, etc.
According to the Labor Law (Amendment) just passed by the National Assembly, the statutory holidays of the year include five days for the Spring Festival, one day for New Year’s Day, one day for Hung King’s Day, and 4·30 South One day is Liberation Day, one day is International Labor Day, and two days are National Day.
As for the retirement age, the new version of the “Labor Law” stipulates that under normal working conditions, the retirement age of male and female workers will be increased to 62 and 60 years old respectively.
The specific road map is that for male workers, the retirement age under normal working conditions is 60 years and 3 months in 2021, and will increase by 3 months every year from 2021 to 2028. months. For female workers, the retirement age under normal working conditions is 55 years and 4 months in 2021, and will increase by 4 months each year from 2021 to 2035.
As for normal working hours, the new version of the Labor Law stipulates:
The daily working hours shall not exceed eight hours, and the average weekly Working hours shall not exceed forty-eight hours. The state recommends that employers implement a working hour system that allows workers to work an average of forty hours per week.
The government issued Document No. 561 on November 6, 2019, which recommended that normal working hours stipulated in current laws be maintained for now, and a roadmap for reducing working hours will be formulated in due course. The Standing Committee of the National Assembly accepted the government’s proposal and instructed the government to propose reducing the weekly working hours to less than 48 hours based on economic and social development.
Regarding the expansion of the maximum overtime agreement framework, employers can request overtime with the consent of the employee, and the daily overtime hours cannot exceed 50% of the normal working hours of the day. , no more than forty hours a month, no more than two hundred hours a year.
In addition, workers in textiles and clothing, leather footwear, electricity, electronic products, agricultural and forestry product production and processing, salt industry, aquatic products and other fields cannot work more than 300 overtime hours in a year. Hours.
Ruthless! Vietnam once again announced a wage increase
According to the Vietnam News Agency in Hanoi – On the afternoon of July 11 in Hanoi, the Vietnam National Wage Council decided after the second round of negotiations that the regional minimum wage standard will be raised in 2020. 5.5%.
According to this, starting from January 1, 2020:
The minimum wage standard in Category 1 areas will be increased by VND 240,000 , from VND 4.18 million to VND 4.42 million;
The minimum wage standard in the second category areas will increase by VND 210,000, from VND 3.71 million to VND 3.92 million ;
The minimum wage standard in the third category of areas will increase by VND 180,000, from VND 3.25 million to VND 3.43 million;
The minimum wage standard in the fourth category of areas increased by VND 150,000, from VND 2.92 million to VND 3.07 million.
Yin Mao Ye, Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs of Vietnam and Chairman of the National Wage Council, said that the current minimum wage standard has met more than 95% of the living security needs of workers themselves and their families. .
After Vietnam’s minimum wage is raised by 5.5% in 2020, workers’ wages will basically meet the minimum living security needs of employees.
According to the inspection results of the Vietnam General Federation of Labor, the minimum wage standard was raised by 5.3% in 2019. The living conditions of workers are increasingly improving, and the increase in the minimum wage standard will continue to meet the needs of basic needs of people’s lives.
I didn’t expect that! Those Chinese factories that fled are back from Vietnam!
According to Hong Kong’s “South China Morning Post” report on July 12: The Sino-US trade war has prompted some Chinese factories to relocate to Vietnam. A factory owner abandoned a factory with an investment of 5 million yuan after only one year after moving to Vietnam.
Zhou Ping has been running a factory in Dongguan, Guangdong, China’s manufacturing hub. In May 2017, Zhou and another factory owner rented a 1,200-square-meter factory in Binh Duong Province, Vietnam, to produce accessories for an American brand.
He said: “We thought it was a good idea at the time, because on the surface, Vietnam’s factory buildings and labor costs were lower than those in Dongguan, and we also saw more and more of European and American customers placed orders in Vietnam. A large number of upstream factories moved there, so we built 4 production lines (in Vietnam) and hired 110 local people.”
However, By October 2018, Zhou had to cut his losses and withdraw due to rising costs and “cultural issues.” Zhou said: “The biggest problem is the efficiency gap between Chinese and Vietnamese workers. Vietnamese workers do not work overtime at all, and most of them have no skills, resulting in low production efficiency and always delayed delivery times. I think that to train skilled workers in Vietnam, time and Funds becomeThis is something that small businesses like ours cannot afford. ”
Another Dongguan factory owner, John Wang, invested 7 million yuan in a factory in Vietnam in 2015. Two years later, he stopped production and sublet the factory. Wang said , as far as he knows, the other six Dongguan factory owners regretted moving to Vietnam and now plan to “give up”.
An executive of a Taiwan-owned equipment manufacturer said that the company moved a lot of production from Guangdong to Ho Chi Minh City and found it difficult to recruit and retain employees. “Now, it is difficult to stabilize the workforce and the job market is very hot. , Vietnamese workers change jobs at every turn. “As more companies enter Vietnam, the situation will become more severe.</p
