3 groups of subjects will be downsized from July 20, 2023

Specifically, according to Article 2 of Decree 29/2023/ND-CP, there are 3 groups of subjects implementing the staff streamlining policy, including:

1. Cadres, civil servants, public employees; commune-level cadres, civil servants and people working under indefinite-term labor contracts in administrative agencies are subject to the same regimes and policies as civil servants according to Government regulations, if they fall into one of the following cases:

a) Surplus due to review and rearrangement of organizational structure and personnel according to the decision of competent authority or surplus due to the public service unit rearranging organizational structure and personnel to implement the autonomous mechanism;

b) Surplus due to rearrangement of administrative units at district and commune levels according to decisions of competent authorities;

c) Redundancy due to restructuring of cadres, civil servants and public employees according to job positions, but cannot be arranged or assigned to other jobs or can be arranged to other jobs but the individual voluntarily reduces the payroll and is agreed by the agency, organization or unit directly managing them;

d) Not yet meeting the training level according to the professional and technical standards prescribed for the current job position, but there is no other suitable job position to arrange and cannot arrange for retraining to standardize professional and technical skills or the agency arranges another job but the individual voluntarily implements staff streamlining and is agreed by the agency, organization or unit directly managing;

d) In 2 consecutive years at the time of considering streamlining the payroll, the cadre, civil servant, or public employee has 1 year of quality classification at the level of completing tasks and 1 year of not completing tasks but cannot be assigned to other suitable jobs; in the previous year or in the year of considering streamlining the payroll, the quality classification is at the level of completing tasks or lower but the individual voluntarily carries out streamlining the payroll and is approved by the agency, organization, or unit directly managing him/her;

e) There are 02 consecutive years at the time of considering streamlining the payroll, in each year the total number of days off work is equal to or higher than the maximum number of days off work due to illness as prescribed in Clause 1, Article 26 of the Law on Social Insurance, with confirmation from the Social Insurance agency paying sickness allowances according to current regulations of law; in the previous year or in the year of considering streamlining the payroll, the total number of days off work is equal to or higher than the maximum number of days off work due to illness as prescribed in Clause 1, Article 26 of the Law on Social Insurance, with confirmation from the Social Insurance agency paying sickness allowances according to current regulations of law, the individual voluntarily implements streamlining the payroll and is approved by the agency, organization or unit directly managing him/her;

g) Cadres, civil servants, and public employees in leadership and management positions and titles are removed due to the reorganization of the apparatus and administrative units according to the decision of competent authorities, individuals voluntarily carry out staff streamlining and are approved by the agency, organization, or unit directly managing them;

h) Cadres, civil servants and public employees who are being disciplined but not to the extent of being dismissed or forced to quit their jobs according to the provisions of law at the time of considering streamlining the payroll, individuals who voluntarily carry out streamlining the payroll, with the consent of the agency, organization or unit directly managing them.

2. People working under indefinite-term labor contracts performing professional and technical jobs in the list of job positions, specialized job titles and job positions with specialized job titles used in common in public service units according to Government regulations that are redundant due to organizational restructuring or human resource restructuring of the unit according to the decision of the competent authority.

3. Non-professional staff at the commune level who are redundant due to the rearrangement of commune-level administrative units and non-professional staff at the village and residential group who are redundant due to the rearrangement of villages and residential groups when rearranging commune-level administrative units must retire within 12 months from the date of the rearrangement decision by the competent authority.

Apply Decree 29/2023/ND-CP on streamlining payroll to other subjects

Apply Decree 29/2023/ND-CP on streamlining payroll to other subjects according to Article 18 as follows:

1. People working in mass associations assigned tasks by the Party and the State and whose funding is guaranteed by the State to perform the tasks assigned by the State fall into one of the cases specified in Points a, d, e, Clause 1, Article 2 of this Decree.

2. Chairman of the company, Chairman of the Board of Members, member of the Board of Members, General Director, Director, Deputy General Director, Deputy Director, Chief Accountant, Controller (excluding General Director, Director, Deputy General Director, Deputy Director, Chief Accountant working under labor contract) in single-member limited liability companies with 100% charter capital held by the State (including: parent company of state economic group; parent company of state corporation; parent company in the group of parent company - subsidiary; independent company) with surplus due to equitization, sale of the entire enterprise, merger, consolidation, separation, dissolution, bankruptcy or conversion into a limited liability company with two or more members or conversion into a public service unit according to the decision of a competent authority; Director, Deputy Director, Chief Accountant of state-owned forestry and agricultural companies with surplus due to restructuring according to the provisions of law.

3. Officials, civil servants and public employees assigned by competent authorities to represent the capital contribution in surplus enterprises due to enterprise restructuring according to decisions of competent authorities.

4. Cadres, civil servants and public employees assigned by competent authorities to hold leadership and management positions at surplus extra-budgetary State financial funds due to the rearrangement of such funds according to decisions of competent authorities.

5. For redundant district- and commune-level cadres, civil servants, and public employees due to the restructuring of district- and commune-level administrative units in the 2019-2021 period that have not yet been resolved, the Chairmen of the People's Committees of provinces and centrally run cities shall apply the provisions of Clause 1, Article 9 of this Decree to resolve the regimes and policies for these cases. The source of funding for this policy is provided by the State budget.