Laws in Vietnam

Interest-based collective labor dispute under the provisions of Labor Code 2012 is: a labor dispute arising from the request of an employees’ collective for the establishment of new working conditions compared to those stipulated by the labor law, collective labor agreement, internal working regulations, or other regulations and lawful agreements reached in the negotiation process between the employees’ collective and the employer. We need to distinguish the collective labor dispute on the rights or interest to determine the proper jurisdiction to settle disputes. Agencies, organizations and persons competent to settle interest-based collective labor disputes: - Labor conciliators; - The Labor Arbitration Council. Like right-based collective labor dispute, the interest-based one must go through conciliation procedure with similar order. In case of unsuccessful conciliation or if either party does not implement the agreement written in the record of su...