Phuc Hung Mechanical and Electrical Joint Stock Company may be sued if it still owes salaries
Many workers (NLĐ) who were owed salaries by Phuc Hung Mechanical and Electrical Joint Stock Company (Hanoi) had to borrow money from outside at times to cover their lives. Meanwhile, the company's leaders once again did not meet reporters as scheduled.
As Lao Dong Newspaper has reported, according to the salary debt list compiled by employees who used to work at the company, the total number of employees owed is 26, the total amount of money employees are owed by the company is 1,444,691,158 VND. Many of them said that being owed salaries causes them many difficulties in life, even having to borrow money.
Mr. Vu Van Duc said that he started working at the company in March 2019; ended his labor contract in October 2025, after a long period of salary arrears.
According to Mr. Duc, currently, he is still owed 4 months' salary by the company (including March 2023, February, March, April 2024) with a total estimated amount of about 95 million VND. The period of both resigning and being owed salary is a very difficult period for Mr. Duc. Having to raise 3 children of school age, at times when money ran out, he had to borrow from relatives to cover daily living expenses.
Similarly, Mr. Le Vu Luong (born in 1982) is also being owed salary by the company. Mr. Luong started working at the company from March 2023; in May 2025 he officially quit his job at the company.
Mr. Luong said that he is being owed the most by the company with 6 months' salary, with a total amount of 150 million VND. In addition to salary, according to Mr. Luong, he is also owed by the company some other amounts related to work. "Durantee to the time the company owed me salary, I had to borrow everywhere. Currently, each month I have to pay about 10 million VND in interest for loans," Mr. Luong said.
To have multi-dimensional information, at 10 am on January 27, Lao Dong Newspaper reporters once again came to the company office as scheduled by Mr. Nguyen Ngoc Duong - Chairman of the company's Board of Directors. However, once again Mr. Duong... did not appear to receive reporters as scheduled. Reporters waited for 40 minutes but Mr. Duong still did not appear, so reporters left the company.
After that, Mr. Duong texted the reporter to meet in the afternoon, but the reporter refused to meet and requested the company to pay salaries to employees according to regulations. Mr. Duong texted back to the reporter, saying "waiting for the source to arrive and then paying employees". Previously, on January 26, the reporter went to the company as scheduled, but Mr. Duong was not present, then texted that he... forgot.
According to lawyer Pham Van Tien (Tien Minh Law Company, Hanoi Bar Association), from the information provided by reporters, the company has terminated the labor contract with the employee, meaning that the two parties have no dispute over the labor contract, thereby determining the obligation to pay money to the employee. Therefore, the employee does not need to complain but has a request for the company to pay the debt to the employee; besides, it requests the trade union to intervene, clearly state the payment time, if it does not meet the requirements, then sue in court; the court fees will be borne by the company later.
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