termination policy after vocational training when streamlining the payroll

The Lao Dong Newspaper Legal Consulting Office replied:

Clause 2, Article 8 of Decree 154/2025/ND-CP (effective from June 16, 2025) stipulates the policy on termination of employment after vocational training as follows:

Subjects under 45 years old, with health, sense of responsibility and sense of organization and discipline but taking on jobs that are not suitable in terms of training level, training major, and wish to quit their jobs will be given the opportunity by the agency, organization, or unit to study a trade before quitting their job, finding a new job on their own, and enjoy the following benefits:

a) Receive the full current salary and receive social insurance, health insurance, unemployment insurance (if subject to unemployment insurance) from the agency or unit during the time of vocational training, but the maximum period of benefit is 06 months;

b) Receive a subsidy of one vocational training fund equal to the cost of a vocational course, with a maximum of 06 months of current salary paid to a vocational training institution;

c) After finishing vocational training, they will be subsidized 03 months of current salary at the time of studying to find a job;

d) Receive a subsidy of 0.5 months of current salary for each year of work with social insurance contributions;

d) During the time of vocational training, continuous working time is counted but seniority is not counted to increase the regular salary level every year.

e) Receive a period of compulsory social insurance payment or receive one-time social insurance according to the provisions of the law on social insurance.

Thus, the policy of termination of employment after vocational training for those who have to be downsized is regulated as above.