From July 1st, Laws of Labor Safety (LLS) came into effect (Official validated by Nation Assembly term XIII, Session 9) including wider range of preferential treatment, policy toward employment injuries, occupational disease and enterprise – labor binding in labor safety.
Applicable to more beneficiaries
According to Director of Department of Labor, Invalids and Society – Mr. Pham Van Cong, the applicable range of the 2015 LLS was widened for beneficiaries of employment injuries, occupational disease and in accordance with the social insurance participants. Accordingly, beneficiaries shall be employees who follow the part time employment contract or fulltime with the working time to be at least 3 months to less than 12 months, employees under 15 year old whose legal representative have the agreement signed following the law of employment with the employers; employees who follow employment contract from 1 month to less than 3 months; employees who work in cipher organization; enterprise managers, cooperative operators who have got salary and non-contract employees.
Labor safety check in an enterprise
The condition to be entitled employment injuries is still under 3 circumstances following the old laws of employment; but more content and detailed explanations were added to 2 circumstances of injuries at working place & working time and injuries outside of working place & working time, when employees work following employers’ orders.
Laws of Labor Safety also clarified about health recovery for beneficiaries after the injuries, occupational disease. The basic modification was to readjust the benefit for 1 day to be 30% of the basic salaries instead of the current 2 kinds of benefit (home staying recovery: 25% of basic salary and hospital recovery: 40% of basic salary)
Remarkable changes in procedures and dossiers
According to Deputy Manager of Department of Labor, Invalid and Society – Mr. Pham Xuan Cong, Laws of Labor Safety had the remarkable changes in procedures and dossiers required for employment injuries. Accordingly, employment injuries investigation report and environment toxic measurement investigation report are no longer required. Without those 2 documents, the procedures shall be much more simplified; problems shall be minimized and Social Insurance officers’ works in profile evaluation and benefit approval shall be reduced. Another new thing is law 56 in Laws of Labor Safety, according to which, annually, the Employment Injuries and Occupational Disease Fund shall spend the maximum of 10% fund to facilitate the activities about employment injuries and occupational prevention and sharing such as Employment Injuries and Occupational Disease Healthcare; Rehabilitation and Employment Injuries and Occupational Disease Investigation as ordered by the Social Insurance Agency; Laws of Labor Safety training for Employment Injuries and Occupational Disease Insurance Participants as listed in items 1 and 2, law 14 in Laws of Labor Safety.
“Employments and Employers shall strictly follow the safety working procedures and methods to build up the enterprise’s culture in the age of integration and to bring the laws really into life. Additionally, the media works are also needed to support promoting the laws to all employers and employees everywhere to make safety condition and requirement for all kinds of work.” Said Mr. Cong.
Anh Nguyet
