The Ministry of Home Affairs is drafting a Decree regulating the regime and policies for senior experts.
Accordingly, cadres, civil servants and public employees when appointed to the title of senior expert are entitled to policies on salary, working conditions, housing, and accommodation.
In particular, with housing policies, the draft decree clearly states that priority is given to renting public housing according to the rate applied to the position of Minister or borrowing money to buy houses for housing, self-building or repairing houses for living under the guarantee of a senior expert agency from the Social Policy Bank with preferential interest rates according to Government regulations.
To be arranged with public housing according to the regulations of competent authorities if there is an important contribution to the country.
In the resort policy, the Ministry of Home Affairs also proposes that senior experts be arranged a 7-day domestic vacation with their family (no more than 5 people).
The employing agency is responsible for arranging and paying for annual vacations for senior experts according to regulations.
In the draft submission to the Government, the Ministry of Home Affairs said that on July 11, 2024, the Secretariat issued Regulation No. 180-QD/TW on senior experts, assigning the Government to issue regulations on regimes and policies for senior experts and guide the use of senior experts who are foreigners and overseas Vietnamese.
According to the Ministry of Home Affairs, policies and regimes for senior experts have been issued through many stages and have not been amended or improved. From 2004 to present, only the salary regime has been implemented (the salary table for senior experts has 3 levels, from 8.80; 9.40; 10.00), service allowances, health care, other regimes are no longer applied.
There is no breakthrough policy to attract and develop a team of senior experts to meet the requirements, especially those working in the non-public sector, good experts, and prestigious scientists abroad.
On that basis, the promulgation of this decree is necessary to institutionalize the Party's policy on building outstanding policies for senior experts at central advisory agencies.
