Commune officials must streamline their staff to be able to be re-recruited

The Lao Dong Newspaper Legal Consulting Office replied:

Article 3 of Decree 154/2025/ND-CP (effective from June 16, 2025) stipulates the principles of staff streamlining as follows:

1. Ensure the leadership of the Party, promote the supervisory role of socio-political organizations and the people in the process of streamlining the payroll.

2. Link staff streamlining with the arrangement of the apparatus in the direction of streamlining, operating effectively, efficiently and restructuring, improving the quality of the team of cadres, civil servants and public employees according to job positions, in accordance with the autonomy mechanism of the agency, organization and unit.

3. Ensure the principles of democratic centralism, objectivity, fairness, publicity, transparency and in accordance with the provisions of law.

4. Ensure timely and complete payment of staff streamlining regimes and policies in accordance with the provisions of law, ensuring effective use of the state budget.

5. The head must be responsible for the results of streamlining the payroll in the agency, organization, or unit assigned to manage according to his/her authority.

6. If the subject of staff reduction is elected, re-recruited to agencies, organizations, and units receiving salaries from the state budget or arranged as a part-time worker in villages and residential groups within 60 months from the date of staff reduction, the allowance received must be refunded to the agency, organization, or unit that paid the allowance.

7. Subjects subject to staff streamlining who are eligible for the policies specified in different documents of the Government will only receive one highest policy.

Thus, commune cadres must streamline their staff according to Decree 154/2025/ND-CP to be able to be re-recruited later. However, if recruited to agencies, organizations, and units receiving salaries from the state budget or arranged as part-time workers in villages and residential groups within 60 months from the date of staff streamlining, the allowance received must be refunded.