Criteria for determining occupational diseases to add to the list of occupational diseases entitled to social insurance
This criterion is stipulated in Circular 60/2025/TT-BYT regulating occupational diseases entitled to social insurance and guiding the diagnosis and assessment of the level of work capacity reduction due to occupational diseases issued by the Minister of Health, effective from February 15, 2026.
Accordingly, the determination of occupational diseases to be added to the List of occupational diseases entitled to social insurance is based on one of the following criteria:
(1) Determine the link between exposure to harmful factors during labor and a specific disease. Some diseases may appear after many years of first exposure to harmful factors during labor, the worker may have retired or switched to another job.
(2) Diseases occurring in groups of workers exposed to harmful factors often have a higher incidence rate than groups of workers without exposure.
(3) Diseases that occur in workers due to exposure to harmful factors during labor but have not had conditions to be studied in Vietnam and have been internationally recognized as occupational diseases entitled to social insurance are added to the list of occupational diseases entitled to social insurance.
Work enjoying hazardous and dangerous allowances in the culture, sports and tourism sector
On December 29, 2025, the Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism issued Circular 22/2025/TT-BVHTTDL guiding the implementation of the regime of hazardous and dangerous allowances for cadres, civil servants, and public employees in the fields under the state management scope of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism. The Circular takes effect from February 15, 2026.
The subjects of application of the circular are cadres, civil servants, public employees at state administrative agencies, public non-business units directly engaged in occupations and jobs with hazardous, dangerous or especially hazardous, dangerous working conditions that have not been included in the salary coefficient.
According to Article 3 of the Circular, occupations and jobs entitled to hazardous and dangerous allowances include:
1. Level 1, coefficient 0.1 applies to cadres, civil servants, and public employees working in the professions and jobs specified in Appendix 1 issued together with this Circular.
2. Level 2, coefficient 0.2 applies to cadres, civil servants, and public employees working in the professions and jobs specified in Appendix 2 issued together with this Circular.
3. Level 3, coefficient 0.3 applies to cadres, civil servants, and public employees working in the professions and jobs specified in Appendix 3 issued together with this Circular.
4. Level 4, coefficient 0.4 applies to cadres, civil servants, and public employees working in the professions and jobs specified in Appendix 4 issued together with this Circular.
