The government has issued Decree 283, setting out administrative penalties for violations in labour, social insurance and overseas employment under contract.
Vietnamese workers (Photo: Son Nguyen).
Chapter IV of the decree specifies violations, penalties and remedial measures relating to Vietnamese workers employed abroad under contracts.
Under the decree, workers who unlawfully remain overseas after their employment or vocational training contracts have ended, without having been threatened or coerced in any form and without being subject to criminal prosecution, will face fines of between VND 80 million and VND 100 million.
The same fine applies to individuals and organisations that provide information, advertising or consultancy services for overseas employment, recruit workers or collect fees without the required legal authority. It also applies to those who coerce, entice, persuade or deceive Vietnamese workers into unlawfully remaining overseas, or forge licences for providing services to send Vietnamese workers abroad under contract, provided the violations do not warrant criminal prosecution.
Branches of overseas employment service companies that operate outside the duties assigned by their parent companies, or outside the period for which they have been authorised, will face fines of between VND 180 million and VND 200 million.
In addition, such entities will be required to return to workers any money collected unlawfully, together with interest on those amounts.
