Circular No. 09/2021/TT-BLDTBXH dated September 7th, 2021 of the Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs on providing amendments to Circular No. 08/2020/TT-BLDTBXH dated October 15, 2020 of Minister of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs on guidelines for protection of employment status of whistleblowers working under employment contracts

This Circular amends point b clause 1 Article 8 of Circular No. 08/2020/TT-BLDTBXH regarding responsibility of the executive board of grassroots trade union or other legal representative organization of the employee in case the employer fails to implement employee protection measures.

Accordingly, in case where the employer fails to implement employee protection measures, the executive board of grassroots trade union or the management board of the internal organization of employees shall give written opinions to the employer, and report the case to the authority that has decided to adopt such employee protection measures and the superior representative organization of the employee (if any) for taking timely actions and further employee protection measures.

Procedures for protection of employment status shall comply with the provisions in Section 2 Chapter VI of the Law on denunciation.

In addition, this Circular also abrogates Article 5 and Article 6 of Circular No. 08/2020/TT-BLDTBXH regulating issuance, modification and termination of decisions on applying measures for protection of employment status of whistleblowers and responsibilities of the People’s Committees

This Circular takes effect from November 1st, 2021.