Hoàng Thị Minh Tâm

Giảng viên Đại học Luật TP.HCM.

Lê Thanh Bình

Học viện Cán bộ TP.HCM.

Discrimination has long been one of the most hotly contested issues across political and legal fora. The practice of discrimination must be mitigated and eliminated in order to achieve universal justice and equality, which every government in modern world should strive for. At work, being treated with esteem and fairness is an incentive for employees to exert their values, intellectually and physically, in their engaging in various economic activities. As for its role as the world’s largest representative of the workers, ILO has proved its radical view concerning these matters, in regulating the equal remuneration for work of equal value and the definition of discrimination in the field of labor. Moreover, the issue has also been reiterated in the most recent free trade agreements that Vietnam has become a part of. As such, the article provides an analysis and comparison between the aforementioned commitments and the domestic law of Vietnam, and with it, the recommendations for internalizing the commitments.

Keywords: discrimination, labour, ILO, FTA, labor law.