About 2.6 million people are subject to stopping paying union fees and union union union fees from July 1
On the morning of May 29, speaking with a reporter from Lao Dong Newspaper, Vice President of the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor Phan Van Anh said that the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor has just issued a directive: From June 1, stop collecting union funds and union fees for union members, grassroots unions of administrative agencies, public service units receiving 100% of state budget salaries, armed forces - these are units that end their operations according to Resolution No. 60-NQ/TW dated April 12, 2025 of the 13th Party Central Committee.
According to Vice Chairman of VGCL, implementing conclusions No. 157-KL/TW of May 25, 2025 of the Politburo, the Secretariat about the Politburo's conclusion on the implementation of the Resolutions and Conclusions of the Central Government and the Ministry of Politics on organizational structure arrangement and administrative units, so that the management of finance and trade union assets effectively, to ensure the overall work of the Vietnam Communist Party, to meet the regulations, to meet the regulations, to meet the regulations and to be ready for the operation of the Vietnam Communist Party. The unit implements and directs the subordinate trade union to implement the following contents:
1- For grassroots trade unions (CDCS)
+ For grassroots trade unions of administrative agencies, armed forces, and public service units receiving 100% of their salary from the state budget (public service units with a level of self-guarantee for regular operating expenses determined according to the plan prescribed in Article 10 of Decree 60/2021/ND-CP below 10%, public service units without career revenue) ending their operations:
- Make a report of trade union financial settlement at 31.5.2025. At the same time, continue to make accounting books until the end of the operation. At the end of the operation, handing over completed before June 25, 2025. At the end of the operation, the unit adjusted the settlement report.
- Accumulated finances: At the time of termination of operations, hand over the remaining union finances to the union at the level of direct management. When the direct superior trade union ends its activities, the entire trade union finances will be handed over and transferred to the level 2 trade union.
- Handover of assets: Implement according to Official Dispatch No. 3563/TLD-TC dated March 12, 2025 of the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor on instructions for handling assets when implementing organizational restructuring.
- Handover of accounting documents, accounting books and accounting documents: Implement according to Official Dispatch No. 3199/TLD-TC dated December 15, 2025 of the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor v/v Instructions for handover and accounting, accounting in case the unit is dissolved, merged, or consolidated.
- Stop collecting union fees (TPs) and (TPs) from 1.6.2025. For units that have paid the PPCD and DPCD from June 1, 2025 onwards, the Trade Union is responsible for returning them to the paid unit or union member.
+ For grassroots trade unions that do not cease operations, hand them over to the receiving unit according to Official Dispatch No. 3199/TLD-TC dated January 15, 2025 of the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor on guidance on handover, accounting and accounting in case the unit is dissolved, merged, or consolidated.
2- For level 3 trade unions that have ended their activities:
- Make a report of trade union financial settlement at 31.5.2025. At the same time, continue to make accounting books until the end of the operation. At the end of the completed activity before June 30, 2025. At the end of the operation, the unit adjusted the settlement report.
- Accumulated finance: Implement according to Official Dispatch No. 3716/TLD-TC dated March 28, 2025 of the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor on guiding the management of trade union finance and assets when the unit merges or terminates operations.
- Handover of assets: Implement according to Official Dispatch No. 3563/TLD-TC dated March 12, 2025 of the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor on instructions for handling assets when implementing organizational restructuring.
- Receive and hand over accounting data and accounting documents: Implement according to Official Dispatch No. 3199/TLD-TC dated January 15, 2025 of the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor on guiding the handover and accounting, accounting in case the unit is dissolved, merged, or consolidated.
According to the direction of the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor, the provincial and municipal labor federations are responsible for directing and guiding lower-level trade unions to carry out trade union financial settlement, receiving and handing over accounting data and accounting documents in accordance with the regulations of the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor.
Speaking to Lao Dong Newspaper reporter, Vice President of the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor Phan Van Anh said that the group of subjects who were allowed to stop paying KPCD and DPCD was about 2.6 million people.
“According to the calculation of the VGCL, the number of KPCs, the CCP of the group of subjects stopped to pay over 3,000 billion VND/year. The fact that there is no source of the above funding does not affect the activities of taking care of, protecting the legitimate rights and interests of the union members and workers implemented by the Vietnamese Trade Union. Because currently, the unit that is decentralized has left 75% of the Union to take care of the Union to take care of the Union for CDCs to take care of the CDCs. The employee and the remaining 27% are submitted on top, the superior trade union directly spent to the union members and workers at the grassroots grassroots (about 80% of the 27% on top) and the rest of the superior trade union spent on the operation of the trade union agency in accordance with the law ” - Mr. Phan Van Anh explained.
According to the Vice Chairman of the VGCL, for the number of KPCs and the CBD (new, newly played) in the grassroots level, the Executive Committee of the grassroots grassroots level is entitled to spend on activities to take care of, support union members and workers in accordance with the financial regulations of the VGCL as well as the laws of the State. This spending stops when the grassroots college ends the operation. Therefore, the rights of union members and workers who have paid KPCs and units are still guaranteed, timely, in accordance with the principles, goals, publicity, transparency, right subjects ...
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