Article 5 of Decree 135/2020/ND-CP stipulates the early retirement age as follows:
Retirement at an age lower than the retirement age under normal working conditions of employees according to Clause 3, Article 169 of the 2019 Labor Code is specifically regulated as follows:
Article 5. Retirement at an age lower than the retirement age under normal working conditions
Retirement at an age lower than the retirement age under normal working conditions of employees according to Clause 3, Article 169 of the Labor Code is specifically regulated as follows:
1. Employees in the following cases may retire at a lower age but not more than 5 years older than the retirement age prescribed in Article 4 of this Decree at the time of retirement, except where otherwise provided by law:
a) Employees who have worked for 15 years or more in arduous, toxic, dangerous or especially arduous, toxic, dangerous jobs on the list issued by the Ministry of Labor, War invalids and Social Affairs.
b) Employees who have worked for 15 years or more in areas with particularly difficult socio-economic conditions, including working time in areas with regional allowance coefficient of 0.7 or higher before January 1, 2021.
The Minister of Labour, War Invalids and Social Affairs issued a list of areas with particularly difficult socio-economic conditions.
c) Employees whose working capacity is reduced by 61% or more.
d) Employees whose total working time in the profession or job specified in Point a and working time in the area specified in Point b of this Clause is 15 years or more.
Compared with the 5-year early retirement table prescribed in Decree 135/2020/ND-CP, female workers in one of the above cases, born in June 1973, will retire 5 years early in November 2024 when they are 51 years and 4 months old.
Male workers in one of the above cases, born in October 1968, will retire 5 years early in November 2024 when they are 56 years old.
