Vietnamese Laws on Foreign Workers in the Legal Context of Asean Economy

Abstract

According to the imformation from the International Labor Organization (ILO), a total of 80,000 Vietnamese leave the country for jobs overseas each year. ILO said that approximately 400,000 Vietnamese workers are now present in over 40 countries and territories worldwide. The annual inflows of remittances by labor migrant have reached about US$2 billion in recent years (ILO,2017). This reflects in part the importance of labor migration, in particular labor migration among countries in the ASEAN region. Labor migration poses legal issues in all countries in both aspects, how to receive migrant workers and how to sent domestic workers abroad. The development of a Comprehensive legal framework will enable countries to manage migrant workers, which in turn can bring economic benefits to the country as well as to the region. On the other hand, the improvement of the legal framework of the country will also be the condition to promote the international cooperation in this field in the most profitable way. Within the scope of this article, the authors only mention a legal issue in the current context in Vietnam, which is the issue of receiving migrant workers in Vietnam. The article contains the following (1) situation of migrant workers in Vietnam, (2) international law on labor migration from the Vietnamese perspective, and (3) Vietnamese law on migrant rorkers.