Regime and policy for officials and civil servants on leave
Last week, ministries, ministerial-level agencies, and government agencies submitted plans to reorganize and streamline their apparatus to implement Resolution No. 18; and at the same time, issued policies to ensure the legitimate rights and interests of cadres, civil servants, public employees, and workers.
The Government has issued Decree No. 178/2024/ND-CP dated December 31, 2024 on policies and regimes for cadres, civil servants, public employees, workers and armed forces in implementing the organizational arrangement of the political system. The Decree takes effect from January 1, 2025.
This Decree stipulates policies and regimes, including: Policies for people who retire (retire and resign); policies for people who cease to hold leadership or management positions or are elected or appointed to lower leadership or management positions; policies for increasing business trips to the grassroots level; policies for promoting people with outstanding qualities and abilities; policies for training and fostering to improve the qualifications of cadres, civil servants and public employees after reorganization.
Regulations on the responsibility for implementing policies and regimes for cadres, civil servants, public employees and workers in agencies, organizations and units of the Party, State, Vietnam Fatherland Front, socio-political organizations from the central to district levels; commune-level cadres and civil servants; armed forces in the process of reorganizing the apparatus and administrative units at all levels of the political system.
One of the issues of concern regarding the regimes and policies for officials, civil servants and public employees on leave is also stipulated in the decree.
Accordingly, those who retire early when the apparatus is streamlined will be able to enjoy three support policies including: One-time retirement allowance for early retirement; receive pension without salary deduction; and be considered for rewards even if the time is not enough.
Attractive policy for early retirees
Chairing the 7th meeting of the Government Steering Committee on summarizing Resolution 18 on January 2, Politburo member and Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh requested ministries to report to competent authorities on the plan to streamline units, listen to multi-dimensional opinions, "what is ripe, clear, proven to be correct in practice, effectively implemented, and agreed by the majority", perfect the plan, and report to competent authorities for decision. The issue of "not ripe, unclear, and still having different opinions" should be proposed for early study of the next step.
The Prime Minister assigned the agencies to promptly submit to the Government a decree on public assets to have a basis for handling this issue during the arrangement.
According to the report, up to now, all ministries, ministerial-level agencies, and government agencies have submitted plans to reorganize and streamline their apparatus and reported on the implementation of Resolution No. 18 as requested by the Central Steering Committee and the Government Steering Committee.
The Government Steering Committee issued a document guiding the People's Committees of provinces and centrally-run cities to organize and arrange the apparatus of the local political system to basically ensure progress and requirements.
Last week, many localities also issued documents on overall plans to reorganize and streamline the political system's apparatus, such as Lao Cai, Dak Lak, An Giang, Hoa Binh, Quang Ngai...
National Assembly Delegate Pham Van Hoa (Dong Thap Delegation) analyzed that these policies show respect and recognition of the contributions of officials and civil servants throughout their working process, especially those who have worked for a long time but retired early.
