Adjustment range and structure
The Employment Law 2025 includes 8 chapters and 55 articles, regulating policies to support job creation; labor registration; labor market information system; develop vocational skills; employment services; unemployment insurance; and state management of employment. The Law takes effect from January 1, 2026 and replaces the 2013 Employment Law.
Main content groups
- Policy to support job creation (Chapter II): policy credit for job creation, job change support for workers in rural areas, public employment, job support for youth and the elderly, support for workers working abroad.
- Labor registration (Chapter III): principles of labor registration, database of workers, rights and obligations of workers.
- Labor market information (Chapter IV): labor supply and demand information system — the basis for businesses and service units like Nhân Kiệt to grasp the trend of hiring human resources in Vietnam by industry and region.
- Vocational skills development (Chapter V): qualification framework, national vocational skills standards, national vocational skills assessment and certification, list of occupations requiring certificates.
- Employment services (Chapter VI): content, organization of employment services and conditions for enterprises operating employment services.
- Unemployment insurance (Chapter VII): principles, subjects, payment levels, conditions and levels of unemployment benefits, training support, unemployment insurance fund.
Points businesses need to pay attention to
- Employees under labor contracts of one month or more are eligible to participate in unemployment insurance (even in cases where the two parties agree on a different name but actually pay, manage, operate, and supervise).
- Employees working under probationary contracts and domestic workers are not eligible for unemployment insurance.
- Enterprises providing employment services (including labor supply) must meet the conditions prescribed in Chapter VI and relevant laws; Labor subleasing activities are also governed by the Labor Code.
Relationship to unemployment insurance
Vietnam does not have a separate "Unemployment Insurance Law". The entire unemployment insurance regime is located in Chapter VII of the Employment Law 2025 — see separate article on unemployment insurance in the Law section.
What law does the Employment Law 2025 replace and when does it take effect? Employment Law No. 74/2025/QH15 takes effect from January 1, 2026 and replaces Employment Law No. 38/2013/QH13 (compare Article 54 - Article 55 in the full text below to see the effective and transitional regulations).
Are labor supply enterprises regulated by the Employment Law? Yes, with employment service activities (introduction, consulting, labor supply); Labor subleasing has its own conditions in the Labor Code.
The full statutory text is published in Vietnamese, the official language of the law. View Vietnamese original