Publications

The ILO Country Office for Viet Nam publishes a wide range of books, reports, working papers, training manuals, CD-ROMs, and videos relevant to Viet Nam. Some of these can be downloaded directly. Others can be requested or purchased in hard copy from the ILO Library in Hanoi.

2021

  1. Multi-tiered Social Security for Universal Coverage – A focus on Families in Viet Nam

    20 April 2021

    This policy brief introduces the multi-tiered social security systems to enable universal coverage with a focus on families. A coherent and well-designed family support system within the emerging social security system is truly rights-based, fair and equitable proposal; it has a high potential to attract workers to the social insurance system; and it is the most likely to be politically — and therefore financially- sustainable over time.

  2. Productivity interventions available to garment factories in Asia: A mapping study

    19 April 2021

    This study focuses on the availability of productivity interventions in the Asian garment sectors. By examining a subset of productivity interventions available to the industry, the paper depicts a broader picture of what type of support services are available to Asian garment factories.

  3. ILO Standards and COVID-19 (coronavirus) - Version 3.0

    14 April 2021

    FAQ - Key provisions of international labour standards relevant to the COVID-19 pandemic and recovery, and guidance from the Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations
    (13 April 2021 - Version 3.0)

  4. Extending social security to domestic workers

    12 March 2021

    Key lessons learned from international experience

  5. Extending social security to workers in the informal economy

    12 March 2021

    Key lessons learned from international experience

  6. Extending social insurance for informal workers

    09 March 2021

  7. Research paper: Study of the impact of intermediaries on environmental and social outcomes and worker vulnerability in small-scale fishing and aquaculture in Indonesia and Viet Nam

    09 March 2021

    This study examines the specific role and impact of intermediaries through four case studies of small-scale seafood production in Southeast Asia.

  8. Gender and the labour market in Viet Nam

    02 March 2021

    This is an analysis based on the Viet Nam Labour Force Survey

  9. Labour Code 2019: Resolution of labour disputes

    03 February 2021

    This joint publication by the ILO and the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs highlights the regulations in the 2019 Labour Code on resolution of labour disputes.

  10. Labour Code 2019: Working hours and rest periods

    03 February 2021

    This joint publication by the ILO and the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs highlights the regulations in the 2019 Labour Code on working hours and rest periods.

  11. Labour Code 2019: Workers’ representative organizations at the grassroots level

    03 February 2021

    This joint publication by the ILO and the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs highlights the regulations in the 2019 Labour Code on workers’ representative organizations at the grassroots level.

  12. Labour Code 2019: Employment contracts

    03 February 2021

    This joint publication by the ILO and the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs highlights the new regulations in the 2019 Labour Code on employment contracts.

  13. COVID-19 and rising wage inequality: Trends and challenges in Thailand and Viet Nam

    27 January 2021

    This brief presents quantitative trends in wage inequality in Thailand and Viet Nam during the COVID-19 crisis in 2020. Based on various measures, it highlights the rise of inequality as wages have been increasingly concentrated among the highest wage earners and the disproportionate impact of lower wages on informal workers, youth and workers with lower educational qualifications. It presents a number of policy measures including enhanced wage support and active labour market policies to counter these dynamics.

  14. ENHANCE Project Newsletter, edition 8, January 2020

    22 January 2021

    The eighth edition of the newsletter for the USDOL funded ILO Project, Enhancing National capacity to prevent and reduce child labour in Viet Nam (ENHANCE) details some of the Project’s key activities over the last 6 months.

  15. Towards solid social protection floors? The role of non-contributory provision during the COVID-19 crisis and beyond

    21 January 2021

    The COVID-19 crisis has emphasized the importance of guaranteeing access to at least essential health care and to basic income security for all over the life cycle, as stipulated in the Social Protection Floors Recommendation, 2012 (No. 202).

2020

  1. Media-friendly glossary on migration: Women migrant workers and ending violence against women (EVAW) edition

    31 December 2020

    This glossary serves as a guide for journalists, researchers, practitioners and others who conduct trainings or write about women’s labour migration and violence against women.

  2. Employers’ networking and Capacity Building - Practical experiences from Project’s sites

    30 December 2020

    Lessons learnt from report developed by NIRF/Japan project to widely share and replicate best practices and practical lessons from activities of VCCI and Business Associations to improve and enhance the representative capacity of the Employers Representative Organizations.

  3. For women, by women: Guidance and activities for building women migrant workers’ networks

    21 December 2020

    This guidance draws on lessons learned over years of supporting women’s groups. It outlines how migrant women’s groups can be catalysed; what expectations service providers, donors and the development community should have for network building; and how to best spark the beginnings of women’s collective action.

  4. IR Bulletin Volume 33&34 - Quarter IV-2020

    18 December 2020

    This IR Bulletin is developed periodically in order to provide important information for people who are interested in this field to update the IR information in Viet Nam in an objective and efficient manner.

  5. Infographics: Second Viet Nam National Child Labour Survey

    15 December 2020

    These infographics provide some major facts and figures on the situation of child labour in Viet Nam based on the findings of the second National Child Labour Survey conducted in 2018.