| THE GOVERNMENT ------- | SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIET NAM Independence - Freedom - Happiness ------------ |
| No: 44/2003/ND-CP | Hanoi, May 9, 2003 |
DECREE
DETAILING AND GUIDING THE IMPLEMENTATION OF A NUMBER OF ARTICLES OF THE LABOR CODE REGARDING LABOR CONTRACTS
THE GOVERNMENT
Pursuant to the December 25, 2001 Law on Organization of the Government;
Pursuant to the June 23, 1994 Labor Code; the April 2, 2002 Law Amending and Supplementing a Number of Articles of the Labor Code;
At the proposal of the Minister of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs,
DECREES:
Chapter I
GENERAL PROVISIONS
Article 1.- This Decree details and guides the implementation of a number of articles of the Labor Code and the Law Amending and Supplementing a Number of Articles of the Labor Code (hereinafter referred collectively to as the amended, supplemented Labor Code) regarding labor contracts.
Article 2.-
1. The following organizations and individuals, when employing labor, must enter into labor contracts:
a) Enterprises set up and operating under the Law on State Enterprises, the Law on Enterprises, the Law on Foreign Investment in Vietnam;
b) Enterprises of political organizations, socio-political organizations;
c) Administrative, non-business agencies employing laborers other than State officials and employees;
d) Economic organizations of the people’s army, the people’s police, which employ laborers other than officers, non-commissioned officers, soldiers;
e) Cooperatives (for laborers other than cooperative members), households and individuals, that employ laborers;
f) Non-public educational, medical, cultural or sport establishments set up under the Government’s Decree No.73/1999/ND-CP of August 19, 1999 on policies to encourage the socialization of activities in the educational, medical, cultural and sport domains.
