On November 7th, 2018, the Government issued Decree No. 149/2018/ND-CP detailing Clause 3, Article 63 of the Labor Code on implementing democratic regulations in the workplace. This Decree takes effect on January 1th, 2019.
Accordingly, the employer must declare: The situation of implementing production and business tasks; rules, regulations and other regulations of enterprises relating to their obligations, rights and legitimate interests; collective labor agreement and others that enterprises participate in; workers conference resolutions; the establishment and use of reward fund, welfare fund and other funds contributed by employees (if any); deduction of trade union funds, social insurance premiums, health insurance and unemployment insurance; the implementation of emulation, commendation, discipline, settlement of complaints and denunciations related to the rights and legitimate interests of workers.
Besides, this Decree also regulated that employees are entitled to comment on the formulation, amendment, and supplementation of rules, regulations and other regulations of enterprises relating to obligations, rights and legitimate interests of workers; formulate, amend and supplement salary scales, payrolls and labor norms; propose collective agreement contents; propose, implement solutions to save costs, improve labor productivity, improve working conditions, protect the environment, prevent fire and explosion; Other contents related to employees’ rights and obligations following the regulation of law.
It can be seen that the Government has detailed and specific guidelines on implementing democratic regulations at the workplace, thereby ensuring the highest objective of the state’s policy is a democracy for an employee in order to ensure the rights and legitimate interests of workers.