What Are Rights and Benefits of the Employee Suffering the Occupational Accident?

Accidents can happen at any time at work. Whether a workplace accident is the result of employee carelessness or employer negligence, employers must take responsibility for accidents to employee.

Vietnam Labor Code defines occupational accident is an accident that causes injury to any part and function of the body or death to employee occurring during the working process associated with the implementation of work and labor tasks (according to Article 142 of Labour Code).

The employee has following rights when they suffer accidents:

1. The employee is paid all the payment of the co-payment costs and the costs not included under the list paid by the health insurance for the employee participating in health insurance and making full payment of all medical expenses from the first aid, emergency to the stable treatment for the employees not participating in health insurance.

2. The employee is entitled to full payment of salary under the labor contract to the employee suffering the occupational accident and having to take leave during treatment.

3. The employee participating in compulsory social insurance is entitled to enjoy the regime of occupational accident in accordance with the Law on Social Insurance.

The conditional to enjoy the regime of occupational accident: were injured in workplace or during working hours; outside the place of work or during working hours when performing work at the duty of the employer; on the road from home to work place and vice versa.

4. The employee is entitled to the enjoy labor accident allowance as:

. The employee with occupational accidents reduces working capacity from 5% to 30% are paid once.

The employee with occupational accidents reduces working capacity 5% receive an allowance of an amount equal to 5 month’ salary under labor contract and then every 1% increase has an addition of 0.5 month’ salary.

.The employee with occupational accidents reduces working capacity 31% or more receive an allowance at rate: reduce working capacity 30% shall receive 30% month’ salary under labor contract and then every 1% increase has an addition of 2% month’ salary

This allowance is paid every month.

. The death of the employee’s relative from the occupational accidents receive at least 36 months’ salary under labor contract.

5. The employee with occupational accidents not due to the fault of employee and reduce working capacity from 5% or more shall be compensated by the employer at the following rate:

. At least equal to 1.5 month’ salary under the labor contract if the employee is reduced from 5.0% to 10% of his working capacity and then every 1.0% increase, an addition of 0.4 months of salary under the labor contract if reduced working capacity from 11% to 80%;

. At least 30 months’ salary under labor contract for the employee reduced his working capacity from 81% or more or for the death of the employee’s relative from the occupational accidents.

6.Where due to the fault of the employee, he/she also receives an allowance of an amount at least equal to 40% of the rate prescribed when fault not belong to the employee.

7. In case the employee reduces his/her working capacity in temporary, the employee receives100%-month salary under labor contract the first aid, emergency to the stable treatment or until a permanent injury certificate is issued.

8. In case the employee reduces his working capacity in permanent, beside allowance of accidents, the employee reduces his/her working capacity from 81% or more receive 100% month’ salary under labor contract every month.

9. In the case of death of a worker who has paid social insurance for 15 years, relatives will receive a funeral allowance and dependents will be entitled to a minimum of 50% of the basic salary for each person.

10. In case of the employee’s death and had participated in compulsory social insurance for less than 15 years, the burial attendants receive allowance at least 10 months’ salary under labor contract at once.

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