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September 25, 2025

Lexology Panoramic: Labor and Employment Disputes 2026 – Vietnam

Tilleke & Gibbins’ labor and employment team in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City has contributed the Vietnam chapter to Labor and Employment Disputes 2026. Drawing on the expertise of three of the firm’s employment specialists, the chapter provides practical guidance for navigating employment disputes in Vietnam and covers:

  • Pre-action considerations: key requirements, third-party funding, contingency fee arrangements
  • Issuing a claim: forum, territorial jurisdiction, standing, commencing claims, fees, service, defendants and legal personality, types of claims, time limits, counterclaims
  • Case management: procedure, rules, amendments to claims, adding parties, consolidating proceedings, class and collective actions, evidence, witnesses, tactical considerations
  • Interim relief: availability, requirements
  • Trial: hearings conduct and time frames, confidentiality and public access, media reporting, elements of successful claims and burden of proof
  • Alternative dispute resolution: available types, requirements and expectations, enforcement
  • Collective employment and labor rights: enforcement and standing
  • Remedies and enforcement: available remedies, assessing compensation, enforcement mechanisms
  • Appeals: procedure, time frames, other means of challenge
  • Updates and trends: recent cases and developments, technology developments, other issues

The Vietnam chapter is available for download below. Tilleke & Gibbins also contributed the Cambodia and Thailand chapters to Labor and Employment Disputes 2026.

Readers can also gain 30 days of complementary access to the full Labor and Employment Disputes 2026 guide and the rest of Lexology Panoramic’s varied offerings through this link.

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