There are knowledge that take many years to accumulate but only after a new document have to be relearned. There are procedures that were once very familiar and suddenly become strange. There are tasks that a few years ago a young lawyer had to spend all day doing, today new tools can be handled in a few minutes.
The gap between these two issues is where the legal risk of a restructuring focuses. You can prove that departments have been merged, reports have changed, or the number of positions has decreased. The harder question remains: how has this change changed the demand for labor and why are specific workers affected?
Artificial intelligence is entering many stages of business activities. AI can create content, analyze customer data, optimize advertising, reconcile documents, and receive customer requests. As technology takes on more and more jobs, businesses may want to shrink their staff or eliminate some positions. But buying software or putting AI into use does not by itself create the right to terminate an employment contract.
An employee who was working on a shift felt dizzy, then was determined to have a stroke or cerebral infarction. The incident occurred during working hours, at the workplace and when the employee was performing the assigned task. Is this an occupational accident?
After more than six years of application, Decree 35/2020/ND-CP has become one of the important platforms for enforcing the Competition Law. But the market in 2026 is quite different from 2020. Digital platforms, data, AI and increasingly complex M&A structures make revenue or ownership ratio not always fully reflect the market strength of businesses.
A decision to recover taxes can cause businesses to refund billions of VND. But in many cases, the more worrying problem lies not in the amount, but in the way the customs authorities perceive the production model of the business itself.
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