Enterprises’ Responsibility for Ensuring Safe Working Conditions – The Relationship Between Compensation and the Duty of Prevention

1. Employers’ Obligations under the Law Article 138 of the 2019 Labour Code clearly stipulates: employers are obliged to ensure safe and hygienic working conditions; implement measures to prevent occupational accidents and diseases; provide adequate personal protective equipment; and organize occupational safety and hygiene training. Accordingly, the central responsibility of employers is not only to […]

Foreign-Invested Enterprises’ Rights to Mortgage Land-Use Rights

1. Introduction Land is a fundamental resource in Vietnam, yet the constitutional principle of “land ownership by the entire people” (Article 53, 2013 Constitution) prohibits private land ownership. Instead, enterprises—including foreign-invested enterprises (FIEs)—are granted land use rights (LURs). A critical issue lies in whether FIEs can mortgage these LURs to secure financing, a question that […]

A House Built After Marriage on the Husband’s Parents’ Land – Marital Property or Separate Property?

In practice, a common type of dispute in family and matrimonial cases concerns whether a house constructed during the marriage on land legally owned by the husband’s parents should be classified as marital property or separate property. This issue carries significant theoretical and practical implications, as it relates to the principles of distinguishing between joint […]

In a dispute over a credit contract, where the collateral is the right to use agricultural land that has expired as recorded in the Land Use Right Certificate, how does the Court handle the collateral?

In credit activities, land use rights are the most common form of collateral. However, agricultural land has a limited term of use (20 years, 50 years depending on purpose). As a result, many disputes arise regarding cases where the collateral is agricultural land whose term of use has expired as stated in the Land Use […]

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