To:

- Federation of Labor of Thu Duc city and districts;
- Unions of provincial authorities, departments, inter-organizations, controlling companies, and equivalently superior authorities;
- Internal union organizations affiliated to Ho Chi Minh city Federation of Labor;
- Economic or career units affiliated to Ho Chi Minh city Federation of Labor.

Pursuant to Decision No. 3749/QD-TLD dated December 15, 2021 of the Presidium of the Vietnam General Federation of Labor on expenditures on provision of support for union members and workers affected by the Covid-19 epidemic (hereinafter referred to as Decision No. 3749/QD-TLD).

The Standing Committee of the Ho Chi Minh City Federation of Labor provides guidelines for the Federation of Labor of Thu Duc city and districts, unions of provincial authorities, departments, inter-organizations, controlling companies, and equivalently superior authorities (hereinafter referred to as superior union); economic or career units affiliated to the Ho Chi Minh City Federation of Labor on the implementation of the following contents:

1. Expenditures on provision of support for union members and workers affected by the Covid-19 epidemic:

- Assign the superior union to pay the entities prescribed in Clauses 1, 2, 3 Article of Decision No. 3749/QD-TLD within its management scope.

- The Ho Chi Minh City Federation of Labor shall pay the entities prescribed in Clauses 1, 2, 3 Article 1 of the Decision No. 3749/QD-TLD affiliated to economic or career units, and unions of affiliates of the Ho Chi Minh City Federation of Labor.

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- Assign the Standing Committee of the union that is superior to the internal union organization to consider and regulate specific subjects and expenditures in other cases that need support in accordance with regulations prescribed in Clause 3 Article 1 of Decision No. 3749/QD-TLD. However, such expenditures shall be lower than the one specified in Point b Clause 1 Article 1 of Decision No. 3749/QD-TLD.

- In other cases that apply to the affiliated economic or career units and unions of affiliates of the Ho Chi Minh City Federation of Labor. They shall receive an amount of 1.000.000 VND/person when union members or workers are F0 outpatient treatment for less than 21 days and fall into one of the following cases: suffering from an incurable or fatal disease; subject to 61% rate or above work accident; subject to the “Trái tim nghĩa tình" (Sentimental Heart) program.

2. Expenditures on provision of support for union officers that participate in Covid-19 prevention:

- Assign the superior union to consider paying for entities prescribed in Clauses 1, 3 Article 2 of Decision No. 3749/QD-TLD.

- Assign internal union organizations at economic or career units, and internal union organizations affiliated to the Ho Chi Minh City Federation of Labor to base the financial resource on the approved annual estimated budget and consider paying for entities specified in Clause 2 Article 2 of Decision No. 3749/QD-TLD.

3. Support principles:

Each F0 patient may only receive support once even if he/she tests positive for Sars-CoV-2 multiple times. If a person is eligible to benefit from many support policies in accordance with regulations prescribed in Article 1 of Decision No. 3749/QD-TLD, he/she may only benefit from the policy that has the highest benefit. If an F0 patient dies because of Covid-19 after he/she has already received the support, his/her family shall receive the support as prescribed in Clause 2 Article 1 of Decision No. 3749/QD-TLD.

4. Implementation budget:

4.1. The expenditure on the provision of support for entities prescribed in Clauses 1, 2, 3 Article 1 and Clauses 1, 3 Article 2 of Decision No. 3749/QD-TLD shall be balanced in the estimated collection, approved annual union financial expenditures (including the budget provided according to the estimated budget - if any), accumulated financial resources, and private investment resources of the union that is superior to the internal union organization.

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4.2. The internal union organization shall decide and be responsible for the expenditure on provision of support for entities specified in Clause 2 Article 2 of Decision No. 3749/QD-TLD from its approved annual financial resource.

4.3. With regard to the unions that are superior to internal union organizations and subject to units with the budget provided by the Ho Chi Minh City Federation of Labor (fully or partly) according to the approved annual estimated budget, after using every financial resource in the year without achieving equilibrium, submit requests to the Ho Chi Minh City Federation of Labor for consideration and decision.

5. Final account document:

5.1. General documents

- A support plan for union members, workers, and other entities affected by the Covid-19 epidemic according to Decision No. 3749/QD-TLD approved by the Standing Committee in which specifies entities, supported amounts, and methods.

- A proposal letter of the internal union organization or enterprise (in case the internal union organization is not established) with a list of supported entities in accordance with regulations prescribed in Clauses 1, 2, 3 Article 1 of Decision No. 3749/QD-TLD.

- A report, payment request letter, etc. with a list of supported entities and their supported amounts approved by the account holder and accountant of the superior union.

- A list of signatures for receipt of supported individuals. If a supported individual is unable to directly receive cash, transfer the money directly to his/her account with a receipt (for each individual or groups of individuals) in the final account document. If an individual does not have an account and cannot directly receive cash, he/she shall have a letter of authorization (certified by the internal union organization or its superior union) in order to authorize another recipient.

- A proposal letter of the economic or career unit or internal union organizations fully affiliated to the Ho Chi Minh City Federation of Labor with documents for each of the proposed cases above (if any).

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5.2. Additional detailed documents according to specific expenditures

a. Clauses 1, 2, 3 Article 1 and Clause 3 Article 2 of Decision No. 3749/QD-TLD

- A copy of the hospital discharge letter or other documents (medical record, etc.) issued by a healthcare authority to F0 patients in which specifies the number of days in inpatient treatment (or date of hospitalization, date of hospital discharge) at a hospital or healthcare facility that receives and treats Covid-19 cases.

- A copy of the paper of medical isolation completion or the medical isolation document issued by the competent authority (the People's Committee of all levels or the Local Steering Committee for Epidemic Prevention or the healthcare facility, etc.) to F0 outpatient treatment cases in which specifies the number of medical isolation days.

- A copy of the Covid-19 death certificate.

- Copies of documents proving “other cases” of supported entities according to section 1 of this document.

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- Verification documents in this Clause shall specify the basis for proving supported cases (F0, death by Covid, etc.). Such documents shall be in the correct form of documents, signed and sealed by the competent authority in accordance with its regulated entitlements.

- In case of changes in the verification documents for F0 cases in accordance with the medical state authority, comply with the amended contents.

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The decision on the mobilization – assignment of tasks with the timesheets of mobilized - assigned entities participating in the epidemic prevention and control is prescribed in Clause 1 Article 2 of Decision No. 3749/QD-TLD.

6. Implementation:

- Assign the department of law policies to provide guidelines for entity criteria; recapitulate and report every month or upon request of the General Federation; recapitulate and propose cases that need support at economic or career units, internal union organizations fully affiliated to the Ho Chi Minh City Federation of Labor. The Department of Finance provides guidelines for professions of final account and payment. The Inspection Committee of the Ho Chi Minh City Federation of Labor provides the union inspection committee of all levels the guidelines for annual inspection and supervision of the implementation of this Official Dispatch at the same or inferior unions.

- Assign the union at the directly higher level of primary one, economic or career unit, internal union organization fully affiliated to the Ho Chi Minh City Federation of Labor to implement Decision No. 3749/QD-TLD and this document; report the implementation result to the Department of Law Policies of the Ho Chi Minh City Federation of Labor every month (before the 10th of each month) in order to recapitulate in accordance with regulations.

- With regard to transitional handling: units shall base on when they receive the application for payment (including time proposed in the application of the internal union organization and the time when cases that need support occur according to proving documents) and conduct transitional handling as follows:

+ Application received before December 15, 2021: pay according to Decision No. 2606/QD-TLD dated May 19, 2021 and Decision No. 3022/QD-TLD dated August 9, 2021 of the General Federation; ensure the final account or payment day is no later than December 31, 2021 according to Official Dispatch No. 932/LDLD-TC dated November 25, 2021 of the Ho Chi Minh City Federation of Labor.

+ Application received starting from December 15, 2021: pay according to Decision No. 3749/QD-TLD and this guideline; conduct final account in 2021 and 2022 financial year according to the actual time of payment or final account of the expenditures.

+ Other cases shall be conducted according to Article 5 of Decision No. 3749/QD-TLD.

All of the above are guidelines of the Ho Chi Minh City Federation of Labor for implementation of a number of contents of Decision No. 3749/QD-TLD dated December 15, 2021 of the Presidium of the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor. Any difficulties that arise during the implementation of this Official Dispatch should be reported to the Ho Chi Minh City Federation of Labor through the Department of Law Policies - Tel: 028.38.290.825 or the Department of Finance - Tel: 028.38.290.836 for support./.

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ON BEHALF OF THE STANDING COMMITTEE
PERMANENT VICE CHAIRMAN




Tran Doan Trung

Công văn 1101/LĐLĐ-TC năm 2021 về chi hỗ trợ cho đoàn viên, người lao động bị ảnh hưởng bởi dịch Covid-19 theo Quyết định 3749/QĐ-TLĐ do Liên đoàn Lao động Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh ban hành