Implementing Decree No. 293/2025/NĐ-CP issued by the Government, which stipulates the minimum wage for employees under labor contracts (effective from January 1, 2026), the Ho Chi Minh City Labor Confederation (LĐLĐ TP HCM) has issued an official dispatch urging trade unions at all levels to intensify advocacy and supervision of the implementation of regional minimum wage regulations.
Accordingly, trade unions at all levels are required to collaborate with state labor management agencies, units, and enterprises to enforce the minimum wage from January 1, 2026. This ensures the lawful and legitimate rights and interests of employees as per Decree No. 293/2025/NĐ-CP.
Minimum wage applicable from January 1, 2026
Local task forces, ward-level trade unions, and special zone trade unions are responsible for collaborating with state labor management agencies to enhance advocacy, dissemination, inspection, and supervision. This ensures that employers and employees comply with Decree No. 293/2025/NĐ-CP as prescribed.
LĐLĐ TP HCM advises grassroots trade unions to proactively review agreements and regulations to propose wage adjustment plans within their units.
Grassroots trade unions should proactively propose and collaborate with employers to review labor contracts, collective bargaining agreements, and employer regulations. These should be adjusted or supplemented to ensure compliance without eliminating or reducing wage allowances for overtime, night shifts, in-kind allowances, and other entitlements as per labor laws.
For provisions already agreed upon in labor contracts, collective bargaining agreements, or other lawful agreements that are more favorable to employees than those in this Decree, they shall continue to be implemented unless otherwise agreed by the parties. Examples include wage systems for jobs or positions requiring higher vocational training (at least 7% above the minimum wage) and wage systems for jobs or positions with hazardous, dangerous, or arduous working conditions (at least 5% higher for hazardous jobs and 7% higher for extremely hazardous jobs compared to equivalent jobs under normal working conditions).
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