According to the Project on arranging commune-level administrative units of Ho Chi Minh City in 2025, after completion, the city will have 102 commune-level administrative units, including 78 wards and 24 communes.
This arrangement aims to streamline the apparatus, improve operational efficiency and comply with the trend of organizing local government according to the 2-level model.
Ho Chi Minh City will implement a large-scale personnel arrangement and transfer roadmap.
At the district level, 4,946 civil servant staffing quotas will be re-allocated to the commune level. In particular, the current force of cadres, leaders and managers at the district level will play a core role in the new commune-level administrative units.
61,998 positions of civil servants and employees receiving salaries from the budget at the district level will be transferred to the commune level, in accordance with the assignment of management to new public service units established after the arrangement.
In the ward, commune and town blocks, 6,627 cadres and civil servants working at the current commune-level People's Committees (including 2,011 cadres and 4,616 civil servants) will be retained in the commune-level payroll after the arrangement.
After adjustment, the total number of commune-level cadres and civil servants in Ho Chi Minh City will be 11,573 people.
Notably, 5,562 non-professional workers at the commune level will be given the regimes and policies according to regulations and completed in 2025.
This is a step to concretize Conclusion No. 137-KL/TW dated March 28, 2025 of the Politburo and the Secretariat on ending the use of non-professional forces at the commune, village and residential group levels.
Ho Chi Minh City is organizing to collect opinions from the grassroots and propose two groups of support policies for part-time workers.
The city proposes three types of financial support for people who quit their jobs:
Subsidy of 60 months of current allowance for those who have worked for 5 years or more until retirement age. In case there are less than 5 years of work left, the allowance will be corresponding to the remaining months multiplied by the current allowance level.
12 months of allowances to support job search.
Subsidization of 1.5 months of allowance for each year of work (if there is a compulsory social insurance payment but have not yet received a one-time subsidy).
For part-time workers in villages and residential groups (wards, hamlets): Working time under 5 years is supported with an additional 5 months of current title allowance; working time of 5 years or more, supported with 12 months of allowance.
Previously, according to Resolution No. 02/2024/NQ-HDND dated March 14, 2024 of the Ho Chi Minh City People's Council, part-time workers with university degrees will receive a monthly allowance equal to 2.34 times the basic salary. With this proposal, people with 20 years of seniority and university degrees can receive a one-time severance allowance of more than 550 million VND.
