Khanh Hoa deploys negotiation of collective labor agreements for commune and ward enterprise groups
Khanh Hoa - The Provincial Labor Federation is implementing a model of negotiating and signing collective labor agreements for business groups at trade unions in communes and wards.
On October 25th, leaders of the Khanh Hoa Provincial Labor Federation (LDF) said that the unit has just approved a plan to deploy negotiations, sign and implement collective labor agreements of business groups at trade unions in communes and wards.
Accordingly, the negotiation, signing and implementation of collective labor agreements (CLAs) of enterprise groups aims to build harmonious, stable, and progressive labor relations; improve labor productivity, and improve working conditions, income and lives of workers.
The content of the negotiation focuses on terms that are more beneficial to employees than legal regulations and existing conditions at the enterprise.
Notably, salaries, allowances, salary increases, bonuses, meals and other regimes; labor level and working hours, rest hours, overtime, mid-shift breaks.
At the same time, ensuring employment for workers; ensuring labor safety and hygiene; implementing labor regulations; ensuring gender equality, maternity protection, annual leave; preventing and combating violence and sexual harassment in the workplace.
In addition, pay attention to negotiating on the conditions and means of operation of employee representative organizations; the relationship between employers and employee representative organizations; mechanisms and methods of preventing and resolving labor disputes and other contents of concern to one or more parties.
The subjects of implementation are businesses in the same industry in the province that have enterprise-level collective labor agreements.
Each commune and ward trade union selects and registers a model, with about 5-10 businesses participating in the negotiation.
The negotiation process is carried out on the principles of voluntariness, cooperation, goodwill, equality, publicity and transparency, while ensuring the consensus of employers.
The Provincial Labor Federation requests commune and ward trade unions to send registration lists for models in October 2026.
Coordinate to establish a collective representative group for workers and organize training on negotiation and signing of agreements.
Units that meet the conditions will be implemented in 2026. Units that do not meet the requirements for objects and the number of enterprises will continue to implement from 2027.
The time for signing the group agreement is expected to be December 2026 or 2027, depending on the actual situation.
According to the Provincial Labor Federation, in the 2023-2025 term, the whole province has 503/567 grassroots trade unions of enterprises signing collective labor agreements, reaching 88%. Among the 503 signed agreements, 319 are still valid, accounting for about 63%.
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