Employees’ Organizations at the Enterprise-level & Grassroots Trade Unions

In Vietnam, the ‘Trade union’ was the only organization dedicated to protecting employees’ legitimate rights and interests from the implementation of the first Labor Code in 1994 until the Labor Code of 2012 was enacted. 

Under the 2012 Labor Code, the term referring to trade unions was changed to “Representative organization of a grassroots-level employees’ collective”.  However, the essence of this organization remained and was defined as “the Executive committee of a grassroots trade union or the Executive committee of the immediate upper-level trade union in a non-unionized enterprise”.  As such, it could be said that it was old wine in a new bottle. 

The 2019 Labor Code revised the term to “Employees’ representative organizations at the grassroots level”, comprising grassroots trade unions and employees’ organizations at all enterprises.

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