Article 3 of Decree 154/2025/ND-CP stipulates as follows:
Principles of staff streamlining
1. Ensure the leadership of the Party, promote the supervisory role of socio-political organizations and the people in the process of streamlining the payroll.
2. Link staff streamlining with the arrangement of the apparatus in the direction of streamlining, operating effectively, efficiently and restructuring, improving the quality of the team of cadres, civil servants and public employees according to job positions, in accordance with the autonomy mechanism of the agency, organization and unit.
3. Ensure the principles of democratic centralism, objectivity, fairness, publicity, transparency and in accordance with the provisions of law.
4. Ensure timely and complete payment of staff streamlining regimes and policies in accordance with the provisions of law, ensuring effective use of the state budget.
5. The head must be responsible for the results of streamlining the payroll in the agency, organization, or unit assigned to manage according to his/her authority.
6. If the subject of staff reduction is elected or re-recruited to agencies, organizations and units receiving salaries from the state budget within 60 months from the date of staff reduction, the subsidy received must be refunded to the agency, organization or unit that paid the subsidy.
Thus, according to Decree 154/2025/ND-CP, the head must be responsible for the results of streamlining the payroll in the agency, organization, or unit assigned to manage according to his authority.
