According to the guidance in Official Dispatch 12/CV-BCD in 2025, based on Conclusion 163-KL/TW in 2025 with the requirement to "study a roadmap to extend the use of non-professional people in accordance with the time of rearranging villages and residential groups (before May 31, 2026)", the Steering Committee for the arrangement of administrative units at all levels and the development of a model of organizing local government at 2 levels of the Government directs a number of contents:
1. Localities shall base on the practical situation and requirements for implementing the tasks of the political system at the new commune level to temporarily extend the employment of non-professional workers at the commune level until before May 31, 2026.
If necessary, the People's Committee at the commune level can arrange and assign them to the title of non-professional workers in villages and residential groups.
2. In case the local Party Committee and government in the new commune-level administrative unit do not have a need to continue to use part-time workers at the commune level, the regime and policies will be resolved according to the provisions of Decree No. 154/2025/ND-CP dated June 15, 2025 of the Government regulating staff streamlining.
3. In case a non-professional worker at the commune level wishes to retire immediately from the implementation of the 2-level local government model, he/she will enjoy the regime and policies according to the provisions of Decree No. 154/2025/ND-CP.
4. In case the local Party Committee and government at the commune level has a need to use and the non-professional workers at the old commune level wish to continue working, the local Party Committee and government will consider and temporarily arrange them to work support positions for the operation of the political system of the new commune-level administrative unit (party agency, Fatherland Front and socio-political organizations, local government);
Or participate in the positions of non-professional workers in villages and residential groups before May 31, 2026 and continue to receive allowances, regimes and policies issued by the Provincial People's Council.
During this time, if part-time workers at the commune level quit their jobs, they will enjoy the regime and policies according to the provisions of Decree No. 154/2025/ND-CP.
Thus, to continue working, non-professional cadres at the commune level must meet the following conditions: The local Party Committee and government at the commune level have a need to use them;
The old non-professional commune-level cadres wish to continue working.
Based on the above conditions, local Party committees and authorities shall consider and temporarily arrange them to work support positions for the operation of the political system of the new commune-level administrative unit (party agency, Fatherland Front and socio-political organizations, local government) or participate in positions of non-professional activists in villages and residential groups before May 31, 2026.
Note, in case of being considered and temporarily arranged to continue working, they will continue to receive allowances, regimes and policies issued by the Provincial People's Council.
During the period of being arranged to continue working until May 31, 2026, if a part-time worker at the commune level quits his/her job, he/she will enjoy the regime and policies according to the provisions of Decree 154/2025/ND-CP.
