As of August 26, most localities across the country have announced plans to arrange educational institutions in the area. Along with the school merger, the settlement of benefits for redundant staff is also of particular concern to localities.
Among the plans for arranging and merging schools announced by the locality, many personnel plans cite Decree 154/2025/ND-CP to resolve the regime for principals, vice principals, teachers, and redundant staff.
Regime for personnel who voluntarily resign
Excess personnel subject to staff streamlining when merging schools, if they voluntarily resign and are approved by competent authorities, will be entitled to severance allowances and insurance policies according to the provisions of Decree 154/2025/ND-CP regulating staff streamlining.
According to Article 8 of Decree 154/2025/ND-CP, subjects who have not reached retirement age and do not meet the conditions to enjoy the early retirement policy specified in Article 6 of this Decree, if they quit immediately, they are entitled to the following regimes:
Beneficiaries will receive a 3-month salary allowance to find a job; An allowance of 1.5 months of current salary for each year of work with compulsory social insurance contributions. They are entitled to preserve the time of compulsory social insurance contributions or enjoy one-time social insurance benefits according to the provisions of the law on social insurance.
Dismissal policy after vocational training
In addition, subjects under 45 years old, with health, sense of responsibility and organizational discipline but undertaking jobs that are not suitable in terms of training level, training major, and wishing to quit their jobs, are facilitated by agencies, organizations, and units to go to vocational training before resolving resignation, find new jobs themselves and enjoy the following regimes:
Being entitled to the current salary and being paid by agencies and units for social insurance, health insurance, and unemployment insurance (if subject to unemployment insurance) during vocational training, but the maximum benefit period is 06 months;
Being subsidized with a vocational training fund equal to the cost of a vocational training course of a maximum of 06 months of current salary to pay to vocational training institutions;
After completing vocational training, be subsidized 03 months of current salary at the time of studying to find a job;
Be entitled to an allowance of 0.5 months of current salary for each year of working with social insurance contributions;
During the time of vocational training, continuous working time is counted but seniority is not counted for annual regular salary increases.
Being allowed to preserve the time of compulsory social insurance contribution or enjoying one-time social insurance benefits according to the provisions of the law on social insurance.
Thus, Decree 154/2025/ND-CP is an important basis for resolving the regime for teachers, civil servants, principals, and vice principals who are redundant after school merger.
Management agencies will prioritize arranging, transferring, rotating or rearranging job positions. Only when they are subject to streamlining according to the plan approved by competent authorities and fully meet the conditions of Decree 154 are they considered for application of 03 groups of policies including early retirement (Article 6 of Decree 154), transfer to work in non-performing organizations from the state budget (Article 7 of Decree 154) or resignation (Article 8 of Decree 154).
In addition to Decree 154/2025/ND-CP, the handling of redundant personnel after school merger must also be based on the 2025 Law on Teachers, the Law on Civil Servants, documents of the Ministry of Education and Training, the Ministry of Home Affairs and specific arrangement plans of each locality.
