Health check-up for work permit: HIV testing result is required?

In Vietnam’s practice, when guiding the foreign employee to have health check, the medical centers often require for the blood test and the HIV testing result is also shown on the health check certificate. That certificate is submitted to the provincial department of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs for work permit application. However, that practice does not comply with the laws of Vietnam.

Under the applicable laws, the HIV testing is conducted on the basis of voluntariness of the person to be tested and the compulsory HIV testing in the specific cases required by the laws. The employee has the right to refuse this test. The employer may not request a job applicant to have an HIV test or produce an HIV test result, or refuse to recruit a person on the ground that such person is infected with HIV, except for the case specified by this Law.

Tiền lương đóng bảo hiểm xã hội là bao nhiêu?

Thực tiễn hiện tại là nhiều các doanh nghiệp, đặc biệt là doanh nghiệp sản xuất tại các khu công nghiệp lựa chọn mức đóng Bảo hiểm xã hội cho người lao động bằng mức lương tối thiểu, và thấp hơn tổng tiền lương thực trả hàng tháng. Tuy nhiên nhiều ý kiến cho rằng mức lương đóng Bảo hiểm xã hội phải là mức lương thực trả hàng tháng. Vậy nên hiểu mức lương đóng bảo hiểm theo quy định pháp luật hiện nay là như thế nào?

Regulations on holding a suspicious in Vietnam

I.              Cases of the suspicious person being held

Under the Penal Proceeding Code of Vietnam, the suspicious person may being held under the mode of custody or temporary detention with a certain timeframe depend on each case.

A person who is arrested in urgent cases, offenders caught red-handed, offenders who confessed or surrendered themselves or persons arrested under pursuit warrants, may be applied for custody. Applied for custody means that person will be held for a temporary period when the competent authority opine that it is necessary to apply for the custody, e.g. the custody will support for the investigation or may prevent the suspicious person from continuing to perform the crime or escaping, etc… In other cases, the suspicious person may be allowed to leave, normally after completing the minutes with the competent authority.

Practising Law in Vietnam

A lawyer in Vietnam is entitled to select either of the following forms of legal practice:

1.            Practice in a legal practising organization, implemented by establishing or participating in the establishment of a legal practising organizations; [or] by working pursuant to a labor contract for a legal practising organization.

2.            Practice as an individual meant the lawyer works pursuant to a labor contract for a body or organization not being a legal practising organization.

The legal practising organizations shall comprise (i) Lawyer’s offices and (ii) Law companies