When localities implement the arrangement and merger of schools, many personnel plans cite Decree 154/2025/ND-CP to resolve regimes for principals, vice principals, teachers, and redundant staff.
Over the past time, many localities such as Hanoi, Phu Tho, Ninh Binh, Dong Nai... have cited Clause 1, Article 2 of Decree 154/2025/ND-CP to develop plans for arranging and rearranging personnel after reorganizing educational institutions. This is also the basis for considering and resolving regimes for principals, vice principals, teachers and staff who are redundant.
According to Clause 1, Article 2 of Decree 154/2025/ND-CP, the staff streamlining policy is applied to cadres, civil servants, public employees; commune-level cadres and civil servants and employees working under contract are applied the same regime and policies as civil servants according to the Government's regulations, if falling into one of the following cases:
Excess civil servants, public employees, and laborers due to organizational restructuring.
Cadres, civil servants, and public employees holding leadership and management positions who resign from their positions or are assigned new positions have lower salaries or position allowances due to organizational structure arrangement, voluntarily implement staff streamlining and are approved by competent authorities.
Cadres, civil servants, and public employees in charge of leadership and management resign from their positions on the request for restructuring and improving the quality of the team or according to decisions of competent authorities, who wish to streamline and are approved by management agencies.
Surplus people due to review and rearrangement of personnel according to the decision of competent authorities or by public non-business units arranging personnel to implement the autonomy mechanism.
Surplus people who are restructured according to job positions but cannot be assigned to other jobs or are assigned to other jobs but voluntarily implement streamlining and are agreed by management agencies.
People who do not meet the standards of professional qualifications and nghiệp vụ according to the requirements of the job position, do not have suitable positions to be arranged or cannot be retrained for standardization; or are arranged for other jobs but voluntarily streamlined and approved by management agencies.
People who are classified as not completing their tasks in the year immediately preceding or the year of streamlining consideration; or are classified as completing their tasks but voluntarily carry out streamlining and are approved by the management agency.
People taking long sick leave according to the provisions of law on social insurance and voluntarily implementing staff streamlining.
Thus, Clause 1, Article 2 of Decree 154/2025/ND-CP stipulates 8 groups of cases to be considered for implementing staff streamlining policies. This is an important basis for localities to resolve regimes for management staff, teachers and staff in the process of arranging and merging schools.
However, being subject to arrangement or being affected by school merger does not automatically mean enjoying benefits according to Decree 154. Employees are only considered for policy settlement when they fully meet the conditions and criteria specified in the decree and are considered and decided by competent authorities.
