Trang Tran
Labour Law and Industrial Relations in Vietnam
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About me
About me
I have been working as a lecturer at Hanoi Law University since 2015, where I teach and research Labour Law, Social Security Law, and the Law on People with disabilities. Since then, I have been providing consultancy services for the International Labour Organisation (ILO) Office in Hanoi and Geneva, Ergon Associates UK/EU and several non-government organisations.
In 2019, I started my PhD at Monash School of Business, Monash University. My thesis 'Collective Labour Dispute Resolution in Vietnam - A Regulatory Pluralism Approach' is under an Australian Research Council's Discovery Project that studies labour disputes in Southeast Asia.
In the past year, I have been engaging in two new roles to promote the rights of workers in Vietnam. As an advisor to the Legal Department of a provincial Federation of Labour, I provide free legal consultancy to workers while also coordinating the Vietnam Labour Research Network.
My research focuses on labour dispute settlement mechanisms, workers' representative organisations, collective bargaining, collective action, rights of people with disabilities, social security, and human rights.
Achievements
Achievements
PhD scholarship at Monash Business School, Monash University, attached to Australian Research Council Discovery Project (#DP190100821) from 2019
Ministry of Justice and Hanoi Law University's acknowledgments for the contribution in teaching, research and supervising students in 2019
Fellow researcher in the Faculty of Law, Goethe University, Frankfurt, funded by Friedrich Ebert Stiftung in 2018
Winner of the writing contest in the first Industrial Relations Summer School by ILO Vietnam in 2017
Strengths
Strengths
Extensive knowledge of Vietnam's political system and labour law
Teaching and research experience in higher education
Consultancy services to multiple stakeholders in labour relations
Native speaker in Vietnamese, fluent in English and good command of Mandarin
Goals
Goals
Finishing up my thesis
Drafting journal articles and conference papers
Research methodology and research methods
Be happy and confident
Make lives better for workers in Vietnam and elsewhere
PUBLICATIONS
§ Ingrid Landau, John Howe, Trang Thi Kieu Tran, Petra Mahy and Carolyn Sutherland (2023), ‘Regulatory Pluralism and the Resolution of Collective Labour Disputes in Southeast Asia’, Journal of Industrial Relations, 1-25. https://doi.org/10.1177/00221856231185866
§ Trang Thi Kieu Tran, Panthip Pruksacholavit, Richard Bales (2022) ‘The economics of labor law in Thailand, Vietnam and the United States’, Hanoi Law University’s Journal of Legal Studies Special Issue, 27-42.
§ Trang Thi Kieu Tran (2022) ‘International Labour Standards on Freedom Association and Collective Bargaining in The New Generation of Free Trade Agreements – Regulations and Implementation Measures in Vietnam’ in Implementing New-Generation Free Trade Agreements in Vietnam - Challenges in The Fields of Labour, Environment and Intellectual Property, edited by Tran Thi Thuy Duong and Tran Viet Dzung (Hong Duc Publication), 381-402.
§ Trang Thi Kieu Tran (2020) ‘Vietnam’s Employee Relief and Protection of Work’, Global Responses to COVID-19, A law and economics comparative project, Young Researchers Initiative
§ Trang Thi Kieu Tran (2019) ‘The Labour Rights of Women in Vietnam’, Japan Labor Issues, Vol.3, No.17, August-September, 65-71.
§ Sean Cooney and Trang Thi Kieu Tran (2019) ‘Dispute Resolution in Vietnam – A Rapid Diagnosis’, ILO.
§ Trang Thi Kieu Tran (2018) ‘International Law and some Domestic Laws on Social Security for the Elderly - Experiences for Vietnam’, in Hanoi Law University’s research on ‘Social Security Legislation for Elderly in Vietnam – Facts and Commentaries’.
§ Trang Thi Kieu Tran (2018) ‘Handling Violations and Settling Labour Disputes Concerning Domestic Workers’, in Legal framework on Domestic Workers in Vietnam, edited by Do Thi Dzung (Justice Publication), 175-198.
§ Trang Thi Kieu Tran, Richard Bales (2017) ‘On the Precipice: Prospect for Free Labour Unions in Vietnam’, San Diego International Law Journal, 19, 71.
§ Trang Thi Kieu Tran, (2016) ‘Commentaries on the Regulation of Complaints, Denunciations and Violations Resolution in the Field of Social Insurance’ in Commentaries on Major Contents of Law on Social Insurance, edited by Nguyen Hien Phuong (Justice Publication), 175 - 186.
§ Trang Thi Kieu Tran, (2016) ‘Compensation in Employment Relation’, in Hanoi Law University’s research on Comparative laws in the Field of Tort in the United Kingdom, German and Russia’s Legislation.
§ Trang Thi Kieu Tran, (2016) ‘Social Security Laws of Vietnam in Comparison with Social Security Policies of ASEAN’ in Hanoi Law University’s research on Legislation and Policies of Asean on Labour and Social Issues – The Compatibility of Vietnam’s Laws.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
§ Regulating for Decent Works Conference, Geneva, Switzerland, July 2023, presenting a paper titled ‘Exploring the Living Wage Movement in the Global South: Case Study of Vietnam’.
§ Labour Law Research Network Conference, Warsaw, Poland, June 2023, presenting a paper titled ‘Mapping Actors and Their Regulatory Functions in the Space of Collective Labour Disputes Resolution in Vietnam – A Country in Transitions’.
§ Asian Law & Society Association Conference, Hanoi, Vietnam, December 2022, presenting a paper titled ‘Divergence of Collective Labour Dispute Resolution in Vietnam’.
§ Australia Labour Law Association Biennial Conference, Sydney, Australia, November 2022, presenting a paper titled ‘Social Networks and Workers’ Collective Action in an Authoritarian Regime: The Case of Vietnam’ and co-presenting a paper titled ‘Gifts or Wages? The Legal and Customary Regulation of Holiday Bonuses in Southeast Asia’.
§ Asian Studies Association of Australia Conference, Melbourne, Australia, July 2022, co-presenting a paper titled ‘Labour Law Reform, Trade Unions and the State in Contemporary Vietnam’.
§ Vietnam Labour Research Network Seminar, Hanoi, Vietnam, December 2021, presenting a paper titled ‘Regulatory Pluralism and the Resolution of Collective Labour Disputes in Southeast Asia’.
§ Labour Law Research Network Conference, Universities of Warsaw and Lodz, Poland, June 2021, co-presenting a paper titled ‘A New Analytical Framework for the Study of Formal and Informal Regulation of Labour Dispute Resolution Systems in Asia’.
§ The XIV Global Labour University Conference, Berlin School of Economics and Law – Friedrich Ebert Foundation, 27-29 March 2019, presenting a paper titled ‘Collective Actions in the Platform Economy – The Case of Grab Drivers in Vietnam’.
§ Tokyo Comparative Labour Policy Seminar/ Japan Institute for Labour Policy and Training, March 2017, presenting a paper titled ‘Collective Bargaining and Collective Agreement in Vietnam, from Theory to Practice’.
§ Labour Laws Reform Conference, Hanoi Law University, 2017, presenting a paper titled ‘Some Recommendations Regarding Wage Policies in the Labour Code 2012’.
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