The Ministry of National Defense is seeking opinions on a draft Circular on leave for officers, professional soldiers, workers and defense officials.
Accordingly, the draft 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.
Regarding daily leave outside of working hours:
Military personnel, workers and national defense officials are given daily leave outside of working hours. Commanders of regimental-level units and equivalent or higher shall issue Regulations on resolving the regime of daily leave outside of working hours, ensuring combat readiness, performing tasks; in accordance with the characteristics of the situation and tasks of the agency, unit, circumstances, and conditions of subjects under their management; ensuring safety when participating in traffic.
Weekly leave regime:
Every week, soldiers, workers and defense officials have Saturdays and Sundays off. When the unit performs training tasks, is ready to fight or due to the requirements of other tasks, commands the regiment and equivalent or more, based on the specific situation of the unit, organizes the implementation of a suitable weekly leave regime.
Notably, the draft Circular refers to the content of military personnel, workers and defense officials with 15 years of service to less than 20 years of pre-retirement leave of 6 months.
The retirement preparation period according to regulations, soldiers, workers and national defense officials are paid and counted as social insurance participation period.
Soldiers, workers and defense officials who wish to retire immediately (not retiring in preparation for retirement or not retiring for enough time as prescribed), when transferred, will receive a salary difference due to not retiring in preparation for retirement according to current regulations; except for those who are entitled to a one-time subsidy due to early retirement according to regulations.
During the retirement preparation period, if you are detected with serious illnesses, diseases requiring long-term treatment, or mental illness, follow the provisions of Circular No. 157/2013/TT-BQP dated August 26, 2013 of the Minister of National Defense regulating the management, treatment, care, and settlement of policies for soldiers, workers, defense officials, and people working in key organizations managed by the Army who are suffering from serious illnesses, diseases requiring long-term treatment, mental illnesses and guiding documents for implementation.
