The Ministry of National Defense is seeking opinions on a draft Circular on leave for officers, professional soldiers, workers and defense officials.
Accordingly, the Circular stipulates the leave regimes, the authority to resolve, register, manage, and suspend the leave regime for officers, professional soldiers in active service, defense workers, and defense officials in agencies, units, and organizations under the Ministry of National Defense.
This Circular applies to officers and professional soldiers in active service; defense workers, defense officials; relevant agencies, units, organizations and individuals.
Soldiers, workers and defense officials are entitled to the following leave: Daily leave outside of working hours; Weekly leave; Annual leave; Special leave; Holidays and Tet; Nursing leave; Retirement leave.
Notably, the draft Circular refers to the content of annual leave for military personnel, workers and defense officials as follows:
Under 15 years of work with 20 days off;
From 15 years of service to less than 25 years of service, 25 days off;
After 25 years of work or more, there will be 30 days off.
Soldiers, workers and defense officials stationed in units far from home (where their spouse or wife resides; biological children, legally adopted children; father, mother, legal guardian of themselves, of their spouse or husband) on annual leave are entitled to additional leave:
10 days for one of the following cases:
Military station 500 km or more away from home;
Deployed in areas with particularly difficult socio-economic conditions; remote areas, border areas 300 km or more away from family.
Stationed in the islands of Truong Sa archipelago and DK Forces.
5 days for one of the following cases:
Camping 300 km to less than 500 km away from home;
Campaign in remote areas, border areas with regional allowance coefficient of 0.5 or higher and from 200 km to less than 300 km from family distance.
Stationed on islands receiving regional allowances.
Every year, agencies and units from regimental level and above shall plan for soldiers, workers and defense officials to take leave, depending on the nature and requirements of the unit to determine the appropriate leave rate, regularly ensuring combat readiness and completing the task.
For academies, schools arrange for military personnel, workers and defense officials to take a day off to focus on the summer and Lunar New Year.
