Legal Challenges and Solutions For Improving Social Security Law for Informal Workers in the Digital Economy in Vietnam

In the context of the rapid development of the digital economy, the informal workforce in this sector is facing serious shortcomings in social security protection. This article analyzes four core legal challenges: employment, social insurance, unemployment insurance, and health insurance. Research findings indicate that although the current legal system has made significant progress, considerable inadequacies remain, stemming from multiple causes on the part of workers, enterprises, and policy. On that basis, the article proposes comprehensive legal solutions aimed at ensuring access to formal employment, expanding and flexibilizing the voluntary social insurance system, supplementing unemployment insurance mechanisms suited to the characteristics of platform-based labor, and promoting universal health insurance coverage, thereby contributing to the building of a fairer and more sustainable social security system in the digital age.

informal labor; social security; digital economy; social insurance; labor relations; employment

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