Proposal to reduce union membership fees.

QNgTV - The Vietnam General Confederation of Labor announced that it is currently seeking feedback on the draft revised and supplemented Charter of the Vietnam Trade Union. The principle is to ensure that the organizational and operational principles of the Vietnam Trade Union are consistent with the workers' movement and international trade union activities…

Production workers in a foreign-invested garment factory in Bac Ninh province - Photo: HA QUAN

Notably, the draft proposes reducing the union membership fee from 1% to 0.5% of the salary used as the basis for mandatory social insurance contributions.

Trade union funds are contributed by enterprises and units that do not receive 100% of their salaries from the state budget, cooperatives, cooperative unions, and other organizations and units employing workers, at 2% of the wage fund used as the basis for mandatory social insurance contributions.

The draft also stipulates that the Vietnam Trade Union does not include officials, civil servants, and public employees who receive 100% of their salaries from the state budget, and is organized into four levels.

Regarding the conditions, trade unions in specialized departments and units can be established when there are 5 or more union members or 5 or more employees. For trade unions in the police and military, the draft adds the phrase "not receiving 100% of their salary from the state budget" to align with the Party's policy.

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