Information related to the case of village heads and secretaries of commune-level Party cells being recruited into civil servant positions has received much attention from readers.
According to the Ministry of Home Affairs, Clause 1, Article 13 of Decree 170/2025/ND-CP stipulates that the subjects received to become civil servants include:
Experts, scientists, jurists, good lawyers, typical and outstanding entrepreneurs working in agencies, organizations, and units outside the public sector under the policy of attracting talented people;
Public employees working in public non-business units;
Salaried people in the People's Army, People's Police, cipher organizations who are not civil servants;
People holding leadership and management positions and titles from the department level upwards in enterprises where the State holds 100% of charter capital or in enterprises where the State holds over 50% of charter capital or the total number of voting shares;
People who were formerly cadres and civil servants and then were transferred or rotated by competent authorities to hold positions that are not cadres or civil servants at other agencies and organizations;
People recruited according to staffing quotas assigned by competent authorities to work in associations assigned tasks by the Party and the State;
Non-specialized personnel at the commune level before the effective date of this Decree;
Team members of the Pilot Project for selecting young intellectuals to volunteer to communes to participate in rural and mountainous development in the period 2013 - 2020 register for labor contracts to work in communes (before July 1, 2025) to work in communes (from July 1, 2025).
Meanwhile, according to Article 33 of Decree 33/2023/ND-CP, non-specialized personnel in villages and residential groups with no more than 3 titles (including Party cell secretary, village head or residential group head, head of Fatherland Front work committee) are entitled to monthly allowances.
Thus, village heads if they belong to some groups of subjects specified in Clause 1, Article 13 of Decree 170/2025/ND-CP and have 5 years or more of service, have compulsory social insurance contributions, can be considered for recruitment as civil servants.
The working time is not required to be continuous; if they have not received a one-time social insurance allowance, they can accumulate the previous working periods to calculate 5 years according to regulations.
