The Ministry of Justice has just announced documents for the meeting to appraise the draft Decree amending and supplementing a number of articles of Decree No. 29/2023 of the Government on staff streamlining, drafted by the Ministry of Home Affairs.
Currently, Decree 29/2023 of the Government on staff streamlining stipulates how to determine the average monthly salary to calculate the allowance levels for a period of nearly 20 years.
In addition, when developing Decree 178/2024 on policies and regimes for cadres, civil servants, public employees, workers and armed forces in implementing the reorganization of the apparatus of the political system, the Ministry of Home Affairs proposed that monthly salary to calculate the policy and regime is the salary of the month immediately before cadres, civil servants and public employees quit their jobs.
Therefore, to ensure a general correlation of the staff reduction policy in this draft decree with Decree 178 (amended and supplemented in Decree No. 67/2025), the draft Decree proposes that monthly salary to calculate the staff reduction allowance for cadres, civil servants and public employees is the current monthly salary.
On that basis, the drafting agency proposed regulations on how to calculate the average monthly salary and replace the phrase "average salary" with "current salary" in the entire draft decree.
Accordingly, the draft Decree has a provision stipulating how to determine time and salary to calculate the allowance for staff streamlining.
The current salary is the monthly salary before streamlining the payroll.
Monthly salary is calculated including: Salary according to rank, position, title, professional title or salary according to agreement of labor contract or salary of the company manager; position allowances, seniority allowances exceeding the framework, seniority allowances, salaries and reserved difference (if any) according to the provisions of the law on salary.
The time is used as a basis to calculate the age of enjoying the regime and policy of retirement before the age of 1 month after the month of birth of the subject; In case the application of the subject is not determined the date and month of birth in the year, the January 1 of the year of birth of the subject.
In addition, the working time with compulsory social insurance contributions of subjects specified for calculating the subsidy is the total working time with compulsory social insurance contributions in agencies of the Party, State, the Vietnam Fatherland Front, socio-political organizations from the Central to the commune level and armed forces but have not received severance pay or have not received one-time social insurance benefits or have not received demobilization and discharge benefits.
The working time with compulsory social insurance payment of subjects specified for calculating the subsidy is the total working time with compulsory social insurance payment but not yet receiving severance allowance or not yet receiving one-time social insurance payment or not yet receiving demobilization or discharge.
In addition, the Ministry of Home Affairs also proposed a way to determine time and salary to calculate the allowance for streamlining the payroll for a number of other subjects.
