Hiring someone full-time in Vietnam for the first time. What do you actually need to sort out before day one?

12-person US team. Just found the best developer we've interviewed in months... happens to be in Ho Chi Minh City.

Want to bring them on full time, not as a contractor. Started researching Vietnamese labor law and now I have 14 open tabs and more questions than answers.

Do we actually need a local entity or does an EOR just handle all of it? And what benefits are non-negotiable from day one regardless of what the contract says?

Anyone done this before... what did we miss?