Youme Law Firm LLC said that according to the provisions of Article 2 of Decree 178/2024/ND-CP, amended and supplemented by Clause 2, Article 1 of Decree 67/2025/ND-CP, the subjects of application of policies and regimes under Decree 178 include:
Subjects of application
1. Cadres, civil servants, public employees, and people working under labor contracts in agencies, organizations, and units specified in Article 1 of this Decree and armed forces are directly affected by the implementation of organizational restructuring and administrative unit restructuring at all levels (hereinafter referred to as organizational restructuring), including:
a) Civil servants and public employees who do not hold leadership or management positions;
b) Commune-level cadres and civil servants;
c) People working under labor contracts for certain types of jobs in administrative agencies and public service units as prescribed by law before January 15, 2019 and people working under labor contracts are subject to policies like civil servants;
d) Officers, professional soldiers, workers, national defense officials and contract workers receiving salaries from the State budget of the Vietnam People's Army;
d) Officers, non-commissioned officers receiving salaries, police workers and contract workers receiving salaries from the State budget under the People's Public Security;
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Accordingly, commune-level civil servants who are entitled to the policies and regimes according to Decree 178 are those commune-level civil servants who are directly affected by the implementation of the organizational arrangement and the arrangement of administrative units at all levels.