Eight measures for illegal strikes: Ministry
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The strike of workers at Panasonic Company in the Thang Long Industrial Zone in Hanoi last year. |
VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA) introduced eight solutions to prevent illegal strikes at a workshop on March 17.
A representative of the Vietnam Confederation of Labor, Dang Quang Dieu, told the workshop on labor relationships held by the MoLISA and the Japanese Business Association in Vietnam, that the rate of companies that signed cooperative labor agreements with their workers is 95% for the state-owned companies, between 45-50% for foreign-invested firms, and between 55-60% for private firms.
Dieu said the quality of these agreements is mostly low because the current laws on labor do not have specific regulations about this issue. Trade union staff is mainly employers or those who depend on employers so cooperative labor agreements don’t really benefit workers.
According to him, because of the lack of trade unions at many companies, especially non-state ones, workers don’t have representatives for negotiating for the cooperation labor agreements. Many employers hindered the establishment of trade unions.
The MoLISA said that six of the total 15 million workers are trade union members. At big industrial zones in Hanoi, around 45,000 out of 74,000 workers joined trade unions.
The MoLISA’s chief of Labor and Wage Agency, Pham Minh Huan, affirmed that the dialogue mechanism and cooperative labor agreements are disregarded and workers are poor at their awareness of discipline. The low quality and quantity of cooperative labor agreements has caused many illegal strikes, which make negative impacts on the investment environment of Vietnam.
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The MoLISA said that to solve illegal strikes, state management agencies, local authorities and enterprises need to conduct eight solutions:
1. Establishing provincial or municipal steering boards to solve strikes under the laws to protect legal interests of employers and employees. The boards may include representatives of departments of labor, war invalids and social affairs, departments of planning and investment, police agencies, departments of information and communications, management boards of industrial zones, labor federations, and employers.
2. Setting up joint-sectored working groups at district level.
3. Setting hot lines to collect information about strikes.
4. Once strikes occur, employers have to immediately report to the authorities, labor federation, and police agency of the district where their companies are based.
5. Receiving information about strikes, related agencies have to send their representatives to the enterprises where strikes happen.
6. Learning of the reasons causing strikes and petitions of workers, asking the two sides to appoint their representatives for solving the case.
7. Complicated matters that the employers and workers cannot negotiate must be reported to the provincial steering board.
8. The two sides have to be willing to negotiate to solve problems. |
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