Vietnam’s ratification of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) is expected to boost the country’s labor reforms, according to a statement released on November 12 by the International Labor Organization (ILO). Workers at a local firm. Laborers will have the right to establish or participate in the trade union of their own choosing at their enterprises In the years after the CPTPP comes into effect, workers are expected to be allowed to establish or join trade unions of their own choosing at the grassroots level, and those organizations may or may not be part of the Vietnam General Federation of Labor. Chang-Hee Lee, director of ILO in Vietnam, said this is really an opportunity for Vietnam to modernize its labor laws and industrial relations system. According to the Government’s report, the CPTPP does not include requirements for the labor market but highlights the labor standards stipulated in the ILO’s Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work, issued in 1998. Vietnam, as a member of the ILO, is bound to respect these standards. However, the country has yet to ratify three core conventions related to the freedom of association, the right to collective bargaining and the elimination… Read full this story
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