Chapter IV
A NUMBER OF OTHER PROVISIONS
Article 17.- Apprentices and job learners prescribed in Clause 2, Article 23 of the Labor Code, if personally turning out products, shall enjoy wage. The wage level shall be agreed upon by the two parties but not lower than 70% of the wage unit price or the wage of laborers doing the same job.
In cases where the apprenticeship or training time is prolonged as compared to the commitments in the apprenticeship or training contracts, the employers shall have to fully pay wage to the apprentices or job learners according to the latter’s work.
Article 18.- Female laborers defined in Article 111 of the Labor Code, if doing the same jobs as male laborers shall enjoy the same wage.
Article 19.- Minor laborers defined in Article 121 of the Labor Code, if doing the same jobs as major laborers shall enjoy the same wage.
Article 20.- Aged laborers are entitled to shorter working time prescribed in Article 123 of the Labor Code and receive full wage.
Article 21.- Handicapped laborers defined in Article 125 of the Labor Code, if doing the same jobs as ordinary laborers, shall enjoy the same wage.
Article 22.- Laborers with high professional and technical qualifications as defined in Article 129 of the Labor Code shall be paid wage under agreement according to the levels of their contributions to production and business efficiency of the concerned enterprises or agencies. The employers shall elaborate wage-payment regulations to attract these laborers.
Article 23.- Vietnamese citizens laboring overseas in the forms defined in Article 134a of the revised Labor Code, who are managed and paid wage by Vietnamese enterprises or agencies shall, during their working time overseas, be paid part of their wage in the currencies of the concerned foreign countries or in convertible foreign currencies.
Article 24.- Basing itself on the provisions of Article 36 of the Labor Code, the Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs shall coordinate with the concerned ministries and branches in submitting to the Government for decision a number of wage and wage allowance regimes for persons involved in special occupations or doing special jobs in the field of arts.