FLAT Legal Journal
A company owes months of unpaid wages — employees not only have the right to claim, but civil procedure favors them with a simplified procedure faster than ordinary…
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In a dispute with your company over wages, allowances or discipline — must you always go through a labor mediator before suing? The answer: yes, mediation is the…
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Vietnamese labor law devotes special protections to pregnant employees and those nursing young children — rights that employers may not contract away. This article systematizes 7 special protections…
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Resigning with 5 days of unused annual leave — can the company “cash them out”? The 2019 Labor Code answers clearly: unused leave is paid out only upon…
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Severance pay, job-loss allowance and unemployment benefit are three entirely different payments — yet employees (and even HR departments) often confuse them. This article distinguishes the eligibility conditions…
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Ordered to stay for overtime day after day, with poor appraisals or lost bonuses for refusing — this is legally called unlawful use of overtime. The law does…
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Dismissal is the harshest form of labor discipline — it ends the employment relationship immediately. Precisely because it is the harshest, the law imposes the strictest procedures: a…
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An employer that unilaterally terminates a labor contract without lawful grounds or proper notice is deemed to have terminated unlawfully — and the price is set very clearly…
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Storms, floods and epidemics force factories and offices to shut down — employees stay home, the company earns nothing. Who pays wages for the stoppage days? Article 99…
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Deducting insurance from workers’ wages but never remitting it to the SI agency; falsifying headcount to pay less — these acts bring not only fines but potential criminal…
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