The sixth edition of The Employment Law Review has been published by Law Business Research. The book includes 48 country-specific chapters that provide comprehensive overviews of labor and employment law. Tilleke & Gibbins authored the Vietnam chapter of the book, which covers the following subjects in detail:

• Basics of entering an employment relationship: Employment relationship, probationary periods, and establishing a presence
• Restrictive covenants: Validity of non-compete clauses and preventing disclosure of business and technology secrets
• Wages: Working time and overtime
• Foreign workers: Work permits, qualifications, internal transfers, requirements, and working without a work permit
• Global policies: Coverage, requirements, and approval of internal labor rules
• Translation: Language requirements for labor contracts, internal labor rules, bilingual documents, and other documents
• Employee representation: Definition, authority, establishment, operation, and general meetings of trade unions
• Data protection: Requirements for registration, cross-border data transfers, sensitive data, and background checks
• Discontinuing employment: Dismissal and redundancies
• Transfer of business: Labor laws and enterprise laws

Reproduced with permission from Law Business Research Ltd. This article was first published in The Employment Law Review – Edition 6 (published in February 2015 – editor Erika C. Collins). For further information, please e-mail [email protected].