On December 24, 2025, the Government promulgated Decree No. 337/2025/ND-CP regulating electronic labor contracts. Pursuant to this Decree, an electronic labor contract is a labor contract that is concluded and established in the form of a data message in accordance with labor law and electronic transaction law, and has the same legal validity as a paper-based labor contract.
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Accordingly, the conclusion and performance of electronic labor contracts must comply with the provisions of labor law, electronic transaction law, cybersecurity law, data regulations, personal data protection regulations, archival regulations, and the provisions of this Decree.
An electronic labor contract must be sent to the employee and the employer in the form of a data message via appropriate electronic means as agreed by the parties.
The use of electronic labor contracts is encouraged to replace paper-based labor contracts in employers’ human resource management and in the settlement of administrative procedures related to labor contracts.
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For the conclusion of an electronic labor contract via an E-Contract system, the following conditions must be satisfied:
+ Use of digital signature software and digital signature verification tools that meet the requirements of electronic transaction law.
+ Implementation of security measures to ensure the safety of customer information and electronic labor contract data; availability of technical solutions to maintain and remedy electronic contract authentication operations in the event of incidents.
+ Storage solutions ensuring data integrity of electronic documents; ensuring the ability to retrieve electronic labor contracts concluded on the E-Contract system.
+ Functions to ensure accurate identification of the contracting parties and to carry out identity authentication in accordance with regulations on electronic identification and authentication of employees and employers.
+ Technical measures to confirm that identified organizations and individuals have consented to the contents of the labor contract.
+ Functions for authentication of electronic labor contracts in accordance with electronic transaction law, in order to authenticate electronic labor contracts before transmitting them to the electronic labor contract platform for ID attachment.
+ Functions enabling conversion between electronic labor contracts and paper-based labor contracts in accordance with electronic transaction law.
+ Provision of electronic transaction accounts that comply with the conditions set out in Article 46 of the Law on Electronic Transactions 2023.
+ Functions supporting employers in reporting labor utilization status in accordance with labor law, through protocols and formats prescribed by the Ministry of Home Affairs.
+ Functions for aggregation, statistics, and periodic or ad hoc reporting to serve the management of electronic labor contract transactions.
+ Connection via standard application programming interfaces (APIs) with the electronic labor contract platform as prescribed by the Ministry of Home Affairs.
+ Compliance with technical requirements on information security in accordance with cybersecurity law.
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Decree No. 337/2025/ND-CP takes effect from January 1, 2026. No later than July 1, 2026 (which is not a mandatory deadline for the compulsory use of electronic labor contracts nor for the abolition of paper-based labor contracts), the electronic labor contract platform must be officially put into operation, and the conclusion and performance of electronic labor contracts will be implemented in a synchronized manner in accordance with the provisions of this Decree from that time.
Paper-based labor contracts may continue to be used without limitation and are not abolished.
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