Article 3 of Decree 154/2025/ND-CP stipulates 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, re-recruited to agencies, organizations, and units receiving salaries from the state budget or arranged as a part-time worker in villages and residential groups within 60 months from the date of staff reduction, the allowance received must be refunded to the agency, organization, or unit that paid the allowance.
7. Subjects subject to staff streamlining who are eligible for the policies specified in different documents of the Government will only receive one highest policy.
Accordingly, if a person quits his job immediately according to Decree 154 if elected or re-recruited to an agency, organization or unit receiving a salary from the State budget or arranged as a part-time worker in a village or residential group 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, there is no regulation that civil servants are not allowed to retake the civil service exam after enjoying the right to retire policy according to Decree 154, however:
If taking the civil service exam within 60 months from the date of immediate retirement, the allowance received must be refunded to the agency, organization or unit that paid the allowance.
In case of taking the civil service exam after 60 months from the date of immediate resignation, the allowance received will not have to be refunded.
