On May 19, 2021, the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor issued Decision No. 2606/QD-TLD on emergency support for union members and employees affected by the Covid-19 epidemic, Accordingly, the beneficiaries of supporting will include:

• The force serving the frontline against the epidemic includes medical facilities, field hospitals, concentrated isolation areas, the support level is from 10 million VND to 50 million VND/unit.
• Union members; Employees in the area with labor relations (including enterprises, units without a trade union) who are F0, being treated for illness and do not violate the provisions of the law on epidemic prevention and control will receive maximum support is 3 million VND/person.
• Union members are cadres, civil servants, and public employees; Union members; Employees (at enterprises, agencies and units with union contributions) who are F1 must undergo medical isolation for 21 days at a concentrated isolation place under a decision of a competent state agency; Not applicable to the form of isolation at home, accommodation, businesses, not violating the provisions of the law on epidemic prevention and control, the maximum support level is 1.5 million VND/person.
• Having a decision to apply medical isolation at home at the request of a competent state agency, in difficult circumstances; Pregnant female employees, employees raising children under 6 years old, employees forced to quit their jobs because they are residing in blocked areas at the request of competent state agencies, the maximum support level is 500,000 VND/person.
• Other special cases that need support: assign the Standing Committee of the Confederation of Labor in the province or city; Trade Union at the central level and equivalent; Trade unions of corporations under the General Confederation; The immediate superior trade union at the grassroots level will actively consider and decide according to its competence, in accordance with the actual situation, requirements for epidemic prevention and control, and the ability to balance the trade union’s finances in the locality. In which, the level of support does not exceed the corresponding provisions mentioned above; report the results to the General Confederation.

This Decision takes effect from the date of issue.