Collective labor agreements help improve benefits for not only employees but also employers....
Collective labor agreements help improve benefits for not only employees but also employers. When collective labor agreements are well implemented, workers feel more secure at work, thus contributing more to the development of enterprises.
Implemented by many enterprises
Fujiura Nha Trang Company, Ltd (Suoi Dau Industrial Zone, Cam Lam District) is a seafood processing enterprise with 100% of Japanese capital. Over the past years, its grassroots Trade Union has mobilized and negotiated with the company owner to sign a collective labor agreement. Tran Dinh Tuy, Chairman of the company Trade Union says, “At first, we had difficulty pursuading the company to sign a collective labor agreement as the company explained that it had fulfilled all legal regulations. However, “soft and persistent rain penetrates the earth better than a storm”. Persistently and patiently, we have succeeded.”
The first collective labor agreement was signed in 2011, bringing benefits to workers. In following years, the collective labor agreement was adjusted and supplemented with some contents beneficial to nearly 100 workers. They include 2 to 5 fully-paid days off for weddings, deaths and funerals; VND800,000 to 1.3 million grant/ month for workers renting accommodation; VND800,000 to 1.3 million/person/month for fuel; VND18,000/person/day for shift meal, additional VND18,000/person for overtime work meal; and body insurance purchased by the company.
A worker named Hoang Thi My Linh said, “working at the company for nearly 10 years, I feel so satisfied with the company’s policies. Particularly, the company always listens to and take our ideas, aspirations and suggestions into consideration.”
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At Dien Khanh Urban Environment Company, the Trade Union has skillfully mobilized the company to sign a collective labor agreement with 14 contents beneficial to employees, explaining a collective labor agreement not only focuses on benefits for employees but also helps raise their work responsibilities, creating a harmonious and stable work relationships, preventing work dispute, according to Vo Thi Huong, Chairman of the company’s Trade Union.
Collective labor agreements improved
According to Nguyen Van Thanh, Director of Song Lo Shipbuilding Company, Ltd., Nha Trang City, to further its development, besides investment in infrastructures, the company is always committed to improving laborers’ material and spiritual life. Stable life will help them feel safe and secure at work and thus contribute more to the development of the company.
Therefore, besides well implementing regulations and policies as regulated, the company has signed a collective labor agreement to ensure more benefits for laborers. Reportedly, Song Lo Shipbuilding Company, Ltd has a collective labor agreement with 15 additional contents beneficial to workers such as the 13th month salary, not exceeding 15% of a salary, 100% pay for leave when waiting for work, VND40,000/person/day for a shift meal.
According to the report by Khanh Hoa Labor Confederation, 421/533 enterprises in Khanh Hoa have trade unions having signed collective labor agreements. The quality of collective labor agreements has improved. The contents of collective labor agreements have extended from social welfare such as wedding, funerals, assistance for the needy; musical and sporting activities to pay increase, income increase, allowance, grants, shift meals, fully paid leave, etc. However, some enterprises are still reluctant to sign to collective labor agreements as they are afraid of taking more responsibilities.
Bui Thanh Binh, Chairman of the Provincial Confederation of Labor said that a collective labor agreement always brings dual benefits to both employees and employers, creating a harmonious and stable work relationships, showing enterprises’ responsibility. The agreement has more or less beneficial contents depending on grassroots Trade Union officials’ negotiation skills such as choosing the right time for negotiation; highlighting benefits businesses will receive when implementing contents proposed by Trade Unions. Therefore, in the coming time, the provincial Trade Union will focus on providing training for grassroots Trade Union officials to mobilize employers to sign collective labor agreements; coordinate with authorities to check and request businesses to sign and implement the labor agreements to ensure benefits for employees.
Van Giang
Translated by N.T
