Nguyễn Thị Thu Hiền

PhD of International Law, School of Law, University of Economics HCMC (Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Vietnam has been more proactive in promoting and protecting labour rights with the signing of Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) in the last few years. The current policy of Vietnam is "proactive and active in comprehensive and in-depth international integration", and international labour integration is “undertaken in sync with international economicintegration”^[1]. Vietnam's integration policy has been built unanimously based on the guiding viewpoints laid down in the resolutions of the Communist Party of Vietnam and concretized in the strategies promulgated by the Vietnamese Government. It can be clearly shown that the labour provisions in the Vietnam's FTAs ​​are in line with the integration policy of Vietnam. In this article, the author will focus on clarifying the content of Vietnam's integration policy in general and international integration on labour in particular. Similarly, the article will assess the suitability of provisions and commitments on labour issues in FTAs ​​with Vietnam's integration policy and implementation status also. Finally, the article will make recommendations to effectively utilize and enhance the implementation of these provisions and commitments on labour issues in FTAs in order ​​to successfully implement the integration policy and sustainable development strategy of Vietnam.

Key words: FTA, labour issues, integration policy