Baker McKenzie’s 9-strong employment and labour group offers major clients a broad spectrum of employment law services, including in relation to compliance issues, union matters, and employee investigations. Thuy Hang Nguyen, also a member of the steering committee for the firm’s Asia Pacific employment practice group, leads the team. She boasts expertise in labour regulations compliance, the employment aspects of corporate restructurings, restrictive covenants, trade secrets, and labour dispute resolution, among other areas. Special counsel Van Trung Khuat regularly advises clients on a wide range of issues, including terminations, global mobility, and reorganisations and redundancies.

Tilleke & Gibbins’ labour and employment team, led by Kien Trung Trinh in Hanoi, advises major clients, including in the pharmaceuticals, consumer goods, education and manufacturing sectors, on a wide range of matters. Trinh has broad expertise, handling cases involving issues such as company work rules, health insurance, employment contracts, collective bargaining and confidentiality agreements, and terminations and disciplinary action. Sarah Galeski regularly plays a key role in the practice’s representations, and has recently been involved in several whistleblower cases. She has notable previous experience advising on the drafting of labour contracts, internal labour regulations, and service agreements and consultancy agreements.

Practitioners at ATS Law Firm have broad employment law experience, including in relation to terminations and redundancies, as well as unfair dismissals and confidentiality agreements. The practice operates in the consumer goods, manufacturing, logistics, and education sectors, among others, and recently acted on behalf of a group of employees, namely teachers at an English language school, in connection with a dispute over delayed payment of wages due to Covid-19. Managing partner Vu Thi Thu Ha leads the team in Hanoi, while experienced litigator Tran Hong Nhan has recently led on several instructions, including for a company against an employee alleged to have violated obligations under a confidentiality agreement.

Mark Fraser and Justin Gisz jointly head Frasers Law Company’s labour and employment team, which regularly advises clients, including major international companies, on a wide range of matters, such as contracts, internal labour regulations, the labour law aspects of M&A and restructuring transactions, and disputes. Both Fraser and Gisz have considerable international experience in the employment and labour law space. Phan Xuan Qui advises on labour regulations compliance, global migration and mobility, and labour dispute resolution, among other issues, while Nguyen Thi Thanh Tra handles the regulatory aspects of high-value investments into Vietnam.

Rajah & Tann LCT Lawyers’ employment and benefits team handles both contentious and non-contentious matters in the consumer goods, marketing, healthcare, and technology sectors, among others. The team continues to advise a wide range of clients in relation to unlawful terminations and remote working practices. With experience in handling lay-offs and terminations, as well as drafting employment contracts and policies, Vu Thi Que heads the practice. She is a go-to lawyer for Chinese-speaking clients owing to her fluency in Mandarin.

With major clients, including both global and domestic energy, technology, and insurance companies, LE & TRAN’s employment and labour law team has a strong reputation for its broad expertise. Senior trial lawyer Stephen Le Hoang Chuong leads the team, while senior associate Le Ngoc Bao Trang is deputy head. She handles both contentious and non-contentious employment matters, including for foreign investors. She specialises in the employment law aspects of restructurings and has recently been involved in a dispute in the education sector concerning the lawfulness of termination during a restructuring process.

Lexcomm Vietnam LLC’s employment and benefits team, led by Nguyen Hong Hai in Hanoi, regularly advises its diverse client base, which includes local individuals as well as international corporations, on a wide range of labour law-related matters. This offering encompasses whistleblower investigations and employee termination disputes.

LNT & Partners‘ employment practice is jointly led by Hanoi-based Net Le and Thuy Nguyen in Ho Chi Minh City. The group is adept at advising its client roster, which includes major multinationals, on both advisory and contentious matters, and the team specialises in employee misconduct and workplace policy violation cases.