[en] The development of Vietnamese craft industries such as sea-grass, bamboo/rattan and paper making has absorbed a number of labours who have been working as different actors including material suppliers, outsourced workers, handicraft producers, and workers in cooperatives and enterprises. Vietnamese government has promulgated a number of laws and policies relating to labour issues, of which Cooperative Law and Enterprise Law focus on rural income improvement and job opportunity creation while the Labour Law concentrates on workers working in cooperatives and enterprises rather than home-workers and outsourced labours those who work at home. This paper bases on quantitative and qualitative data which have been collected in the sea-grass value chain to analyze the gaps existing between the written Labor law and practice. As a result, we find out that almost all self-employed workers and outsourced labors who mainly constituted a labor force of handicraft sector have not received support from Labor Law and other supported policies.
Disciplines :
Agriculture & agronomy
Author, co-author :
Nguyen Thi Hai Ninh ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Doct. sc. agro. & ingé. biol. (Paysage)
Philippe, Lebailly; University of Liege > Economics and Rural Development
Language :
English
Title :
The gaps between written law and practice: A case study of Vietnamese Labor law on crafts workers
Alternative titles :
[en] The gaps between written law and practice: A case study of Vietnamese Labor law on crafts workers