Confidentiality and Non-Compete in Internal Regulations
Many companies assume a few lines in the internal regulations — “no disclosing secrets, no joining competitors” — are enough to lock in key staff. In reality confidentiality…
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Foreign Investment
Bilingual Vietnamese-English Regulations: Valid?
Foreign-invested companies almost always want the internal regulations in two languages: Vietnamese for the authorities, English for management and expatriate staff. Nothing forbids the practice — but the…
Read article ↗No Internal Regulations: Can You Still Discipline?
This question is usually asked only after the incident: the employee’s misconduct is plain, but the company searches its files and finds it never issued — or issued…
Read article ↗Phone and Social Media Use During Work: Rules
The personal phone is a quiet friction point in almost every plant and office: management wants an outright ban to protect productivity and secrets, while employees see the…
Read article ↗Registering Internal Labor Regulations: When Mandatory?
Many SMEs only start thinking about internal labour regulations when the first disciplinary case lands — and discover their sanction decision has no foundation. The law sets a…
Read article ↗Amending Internal Labor Regulations: Procedures
The company grows, a new plant opens, shifts are introduced or confidentiality rules are tightened — every governance change of this kind pulls the internal labour regulations along…
Read article ↗Workplace Sexual Harassment: Internal Rules
Since the 2019 Labour Code, preventing workplace sexual harassment is no longer a slogan for the HR handbook — it is a compulsory component of the internal labour…
Read article ↗KPI-Based Appraisals Tied to Discipline and Bonuses
Every management team wants a clean linkage: miss the KPI and lose the bonus, miss it again and face discipline, miss it persistently and be dismissed. That managerial…
Read article ↗Disciplinary Forms: Reprimand, Wage-Raise Deferral, Demotion
When an employee breaks the rules, many foreign managers reach instinctively for a “fine” or a salary deduction — the two responses Vietnamese labour law prohibits outright. Discipline…
Read article ↗Changing Visa Purpose (Tourist to Work)
An engineer enters Vietnam to visit relatives and, while here, is offered a job by a local plant. The company wants to keep the person on the spot…
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