The Ministry of Home Affairs is seeking opinions on the draft Decree on job positions for civil servants, in order to concretize the Law on Civil Servants in 2025, in which the establishment of job positions is the central basis in management.
Accordingly, activities such as recruitment, arrangement, use, training, evaluation and policy implementation are all carried out on the basis of job positions.
The draft clearly states that the previous management model combining professional titles and job positions has not created a clear motivation to improve work quality. The recruitment, training or use of public employees has not really been linked to the specific requirements of each position.
In the context that the 2025 Law on Public Employees no longer stipulates the system of professional titles as an independent management axis, the draft decree is built to establish a unified legal framework for managing public employees according to job positions, while ensuring synchronization with new legal regulations.
To ensure the stable implementation of the salary policy, the draft Decree stipulates that while the competent authority has not issued a document implementing the new salary regime for civil servants, the rank and salary coefficient of the civil servant title according to the provisions of current salary law are used as a transitional technical basis for ranking salaries and implementing salary regimes and policies for civil servants recruited and arranged for job positions specified in this Decree.
Public employees recruited according to the provisions of the Law on Public Employees No. 129/2025/QH15 applying the current salary regime at the professional level of the recruited job position:
Grade 1 is ranked as salary equivalent to the rank of employees;
Grade 2 is ranked as a salary equivalent to the civil servant rank;
Level 3 is ranked as salary equivalent to specialist rank;
Level 4 is ranked as the salary equivalent to the principal specialist rank;
Level 5 is ranked as a salary equivalent to the rank of senior specialist.
At the same time, the Decree stipulates: Public employees appointed to management positions specified in this Decree are ranked by salary according to the rank and salary coefficient of the professional public employee title being held according to the provisions of current salary law.
Civil servants who are being ranked according to professional title ranks are transferred to the professional rank of the job position specified in this Decree and are implementing salary ranking as follows:
Transfer to level 1 for cases where salaries are ranked equivalent to the rank of employees and continue to rank salaries according to the rank and salary coefficient being ranked;
Transfer to level 2 for cases where salaries are ranked equivalent to cadre ranks and continue to rank salaries according to ranks and salary coefficients being ranked;
Transfer to level 3 for cases where salaries are ranked equivalent to specialist ranks and continue to rank salaries equivalent to the rank and salary coefficient being ranked;
Transfer to level 4 for cases currently ranked as equivalent to the rank of principal specialist and continue to rank salaries according to the rank and salary coefficient being ranked;
Transfer to level 5 for cases currently ranked as equivalent to the rank of senior specialist and continue to rank salaries according to the rank and salary coefficient being ranked.
