Article 10 of the 2025 Law on Public Employees (effective from July 1, 2026) stipulates the following civil servants who are not allowed to work:
1. Avoiding, delegating, pushing in the performance of assigned duties and tasks; causing dispatch, disunity; arbitrarily quitting work, quitting work; participating in public housing; posting, disseminating, and expressing false information that affects the image and reputation of the country, locality, or unit where they work.
2. Taking advantage of professional activities to propagate against the Party's guidelines and policies, the State's laws or causing harm to the pure culture, customs, cultural life and spirit of the People and society.
3. There are acts of embezzlement, corruption, waste, negativity, profiteering, harassment and other acts that violate the law in the process of performing tasks.
4. Illegal use of public assets and people's assets.
5. There are acts of discrimination in ethnicity, gender, age, disability, religion, belief, and social class in all forms in performing tasks.
6. Insulting the honor, dignity and reputation of others while performing professional activities.
7. Things that are not allowed to be done in accordance with the provisions of the law on corruption prevention and control; the law on thrift and waste control; the law on enterprises; the law on the protection of state secrets; things that are not allowed to be done in accordance with the provisions of law and competent authorities.
Currently, according to Article 19 of the 2010 Law on Civil Servants, the things that civil servants are not allowed to do include:
1. Avoiding responsibility, delegating work or assigned tasks; causing dispatch, disunity; arbitrarily quitting work; participating in public duties.
2. Using assets of agencies, organizations, units and people in violation of the provisions of law.
3. Discrimination between ethnic groups, men and women, social groups, beliefs and religions in all forms.
4. Taking advantage of professional activities to propagate against the Party's guidelines and policies, the State's laws or causing harm to the pure life, customs, cultural life, and spirit of the people and society.
5. Insulting the honor, dignity and reputation of others while performing professional activities.
6. Other acts that civil servants are not allowed to do according to the provisions of the Law on Anti-Corruption, the Law on Practicing Thrift, Combating Wastefulness and other relevant legal provisions.
