Article 42 of the 2025 Law on Teachers (effective from January 1, 2026) stipulates:
Transitional regulations
1. In case the competent authority has approved the project or plan for organizing teacher recruitment and considering promotion of the professional title of teacher before the effective date of this Law, it will continue to be implemented according to the approved project or plan within 12 months from the effective date of this Law.
2. Teachers continue to receive seniority allowances until salary policy reform for cadres, civil servants, public employees, armed forces and workers in enterprises is implemented.
Thus, from January 1, 2026, when the 2025 Teachers' Law takes effect, they will continue to receive seniority allowances for teachers until the salary policy reform for cadres, civil servants, public employees, armed forces and workers in enterprises is implemented.
Therefore, seniority allowances for teachers will be abolished when implementing salary policy reform for cadres, civil servants, public employees, the People's Armed Forces and workers in enterprises.
This is completely consistent with the orientation of salary reform for cadres, civil servants, public employees and armed forces in general in Resolution 27/NQ-TW in 2018 on rearranging current allowance regimes, ensuring that the total allowance fund accounts for up to 30% of the total salary fund. In which, seniority allowances (except for the army, police, cryptography to ensure salary correlation with cadres and civil servants) are abolished...
