tailieunhanh - Suggestions for improvement in Vietnam employment laws in the context of gender equality

Improving gender equality in the workplace is an urgent task for Vietnam Communist Party and the Government. Despite the ratification of international conventions on labour, women rights, as well as amendment to relevant domestic laws, it appears that the provisions have not satisfied the requirements set forth to combat discrimination at work against women. Through this article, the author intends to propose some ideas to improve the laws on the protection of the current female workers’ rights based on the 2012 Labour Code (amended and supplemented in 2019), related laws and sub–law documents. | 90 Tạp chí Khoa học amp Công nghệ Số 11 Suggestions for improvement in Vietnam employment laws in the context of gender equality Quang Ha Tran Nguyen Lecturer at the Faculty of Law of Nguyen Tat Thanh University tnqha@ Abstract Nhận Improving gender equality in the workplace is an urgent task for Vietnam Communist Party and Được duyệt the Government. Despite the ratification of international conventions on labour women rights Công bố as well as amendment to relevant domestic laws it appears that the provisions have not satisfied the requirements set forth to combat discrimination at work against women. Through this Keywords article the author intends to propose some ideas to improve the laws on the protection of the gender equality current female workers rights based on the 2012 Labour Code amended and supplemented in legislation employment 2019 related laws and sub law documents. female worker Labour Code Vietnam 2020 Journal of Science and Technology - NTTU 1 Introduction perspective of law women and men are basically equal in economy politics culture and society. Although the In Vietnam like in other developing countries women implementation of equal rights between men and women continue to be the main force constituting to the poor low- still exists and many provisions of the law are equal they income labour group which is more likely to be subject to in fact have not guaranteed the true equality. To overcome unemployment and have precarious employment gender gaps is an important task in order to ensure the conditions than men. Women also constitute the majority of interests of each gender in the implementation of human unpaid family work and of the invisible part of the rights in Vietnam as in President Hồ Chí Minh s advice informal economy - they work as domestic workers on considering the issue of men and women equality as A street vendors or work in the entertainment industry. The rather big and difficult .