FLAT Legal Journal
Scenario: at the start of the financial year, the factory receives notice that the industrial park management fee rises 30%, “effective this quarter”, with no cost breakdown attached.…
Read article ↗Scenario: a leased plot sits nearly a metre below the park’s internal road, and the construction team proposes “levelling the low area at the back too, and digging…
Read article ↗Scenario: a Japanese customer’s audit finds that 3 of the plant’s 11 overhead cranes expired their technical inspection four months ago — not because the plant refused inspection,…
Read article ↗Scenario: a factory finishes its structural works and only then starts on power — discovering that the slowest part is not the utility but its own substation, which…
Read article ↗Scenario: eight months after handover, an FDI factory’s concrete floor cracks and the roof drainage leaks. The investor calls the contractor back for warranty repairs — and learns…
Read article ↗Scenario: an FDI factory is nearing completion and its engineering team holds four different environmental documents — an approved environmental impact assessment, a wastewater discharge license, a hazardous-waste…
Read article ↗Scenario: an investor about to build a two-storey factory in an industrial park asks: “Are factory buildings under 7 storeys exempt from construction permits, like houses?” The short…
Read article ↗Scenario: an FDI factory has just been completed. The admin team mounts a large logo sign across the workshop facade and a billboard along the national highway in…
Read article ↗Scenario: an FDI electronics plant wants to set aside 800 m² of its site for a warehouse storing solvents and production chemicals. The industrial park authority accepts the…
Read article ↗The same US–Vietnamese group: in the US dismissing an employee can take an afternoon (at-will employment); in Viet Nam a procedurally wrong dismissal can force the company to…
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