Three of Tilleke & Gibbins’ labor and employment specialists in Vietnam have contributed the Vietnam chapter to the newly issued Labor and Employment Disputes 2024, a comprehensive guide from Lexology Panoramic to labor and employment dispute resolution in various jurisdictions around the world. The Vietnam chapter covers the following topics:

• Pre-action considerations: Key requirements, third-party funding, contingency fee arrangements
• Issuing a claim: Forum, territorial jurisdiction, standing, commencing claims, fees, service
• Defendants and legal personality: Types of claims, time limits, counterclaims
• Case management: Procedure, rules, amendments to claims, adding parties to proceedings, consolidating proceedings
• Class and collective actions: Special considerations
• Evidence: Witnesses, tactical considerations
• Interim relief: Availability, requirements
• Trial: Hearings conduct and typical time frames, confidentiality and public access, media reporting
• Elements of successful claims and burden of proof
• Alternative dispute resolution: Available types, requirements and expectations
• Enforcement: Collective employment and labor rights, enforcement of collective rights, standing
• Remedies and enforcement: Available remedies, assessing compensation, enforcement mechanisms
• Appeals: Appeal procedure and time frames, other means of challenge
• Update and trends: Recent cases and developments, technology developments, other issues

The Vietnam chapter was authored by Truc Thi Thanh, Linh Ngoc Nguyen, and Kien Trung Trinh. Tilleke & Gibbins also contributed the Cambodia and Thailand chapters to Labor and Employment Disputes 2024.