FROM JANUARY 17, FINE UP TO VND 75 MILLION FOR THE ACT OF MISTREATING DOMESTIC WORKERS
This noticeable content is provided in the Government’s Decree No. 12/2022/ND-CP dated January 17, 2022, providing penalties for administrative violations in the fields of labor, social insurance, and overseas manpower supply under contract.
Specifically, a fine of between VND 50,000,000 and VND 75,000,000 shall be imposed on any employer that commits the acts of mistreating, sexually harassing, extracting forced labor or using violence against domestic workers but not seriously enough to be examined for penal liability.
A fine of between VND 10,000,000 and VND 20,000,000 shall be imposed on any employer that fails to reach a written agreement with the leadership board of the grassroots-level workers’ representative organization when unilaterally terminating the labor contract, transferring a worker to another job or dismissing a worker who is a member of the leadership board of the grassroots-level workers’ representative organization, but not seriously enough to be examined for penal liability, unless the two parties cannot reach an agreement.
Besides, a fine of between VND 10,000,000 and VND 20,000,000 shall be imposed on any employer that commits the acts of forging or falsifying the contents in dossier for enjoyment of social insurance and unemployment insurance benefits for self-seeking purposes from the social insurance and unemployment insurance regimes but not seriously enough to be examined for penal liability. The fine shall be imposed for each dossier being forged or falsified but the total fine shall not exceed VND 75,000,000.
This Decree takes effect from January 17, 2022.
