A general law, and a gap specific to domestic work
Any Vietnamese enterprise sending workers abroad operates under Law No. 69/2020/QH14, the country's law on Vietnamese workers going abroad under contract, in force since January 2022. It requires a DOLAB licence, a minimum charter capital in the billions of Vietnamese dong, and registration of each job order's contract terms before deployment. This is the general mechanism covering every destination market Vietnam sends workers to, not something written specifically for domestic-helper placements in Malaysia.
What's specific to this occupation is a gap, not a rule. Vietnam's own labour authority has publicly stated that the two governments have not reached an agreement covering domestic work, distinct from a broader Vietnam-Malaysia labour memorandum reportedly signed around March 2022, which covers other sectors (confirm the exact date and scope directly with DOLAB or the Vietnamese mission). The authority has also advised sending enterprises to weigh partnerships carefully because of this gap. The most recent reporting found on this point dates to January 2023, and no later source was found either confirming or contradicting it, so treat it as the last known position rather than a fact reconfirmed for 2026.
The wage floor, and why one isn't stated here
Law 69/2020 lets Vietnam's labour ministry set a wage ceiling per destination market and occupation for certain placement arrangements, but no published figure specific to Malaysian domestic-helper work was found. Vietnam's own domestic minimum wage, reviewed periodically under separate decrees, governs work performed inside Vietnam and has no bearing on what an overseas placement contract should pay. Don't treat one as a stand-in for the other.
No domestic-work-specific certification step was found either, of the kind other source countries use, such as a dedicated training course or a mission contract-endorsement requirement. That absence may simply follow from the same gap: without an established government-to-government channel for this occupation, there's no bilateral certification step to point to. Ask your agency directly what contract review, if any, the Vietnamese side currently applies, rather than assuming a step exists or doesn't.
What Malaysia's side requires, and what to check directly
On the Malaysian side, Immigration's foreign domestic helper terms currently place Vietnam in the same income bracket as Laos, Thailand and Cambodia: roughly RM3,000 net monthly household income, alongside a personal bond of roughly RM1,500. Both figures come from a single check of Immigration's own page this session, without a second independent source confirming them for Vietnam specifically, so confirm both directly before you budget around them.
There's no record of a formal freeze or suspension of this corridor, unlike some other source countries' history, but that isn't the same as a fully regulated route either. Since the government-to-government gap above means there's no dedicated bilateral channel to check a corridor's open-or-paused status against, the practical step is to ask your agency directly what it can currently confirm, rather than assume either that the route is fully settled or that it's paused.