Prohibit combining meetings with sightseeing and vacations
This is one of the new regulations that took effect in December.
Many cases are entitled to 100% of medical examination and treatment costs.
Decree 146/2018, effective from December 1, stipulates 100% support for medical examination and treatment costs and does not apply the limit on the rate of payment for medicines, chemicals, medical supplies, and technical services as prescribed by the Minister of Health for revolutionary activists before January 1, 1945 to the August 1945 uprising; heroic Vietnamese mothers; war invalids, people enjoying policies like war invalids and sick soldiers with a labor capacity reduction of 81% or more; children under 6 years old...
Free tuition for 5-year-old preschool children in extremely disadvantaged areas
Effective from December 1, Decree 145/2018 clearly states that in addition to the 15 cases that were exempted from tuition fees according to previous regulations, from the 2018-2019 school year (ie from September 1, 2018), the State will exempt tuition fees for 5-year-old preschool children in extremely disadvantaged areas whose parents or fathers or mothers permanently reside in extremely disadvantaged communes and villages in ethnic minority and mountainous areas, extremely disadvantaged communes in coastal areas, islands...
Driving students are trained on simulators.
According to Decree 138 amending the regulations on business conditions for driver training services and driver testing services, effective from January 12, driving classrooms must be equipped with audio-visual equipment for teaching such as tapes, projectors; have pictures or drawings describing basic driving operations such as adjusting the driver's seat, driving posture, and steering wheel position; have cars jacked up to ensure safety for practicing cold and hot gears, and have simulation equipment for driver training...
In addition, the document also stipulates general standards for driving instructors, such as meeting the standards for teachers teaching elementary vocational education. Theory teachers must have a secondary school diploma or higher, in the fields of law, automobile technology, automobile engineering technology, automobile assembly, etc.
Adjusting pensions for female workers
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According to Social Insurance, from 2018-2021, 91,000 female workers will start receiving pensions according to the new calculation method. |
Decree 153/2018, effective from December 24, stipulates the pension adjustment policy for female employees who start receiving pension from 2018 to 2021, with a social insurance (SI) payment period of 20 years to 29 years and 6 months as follows: The adjustment level will be calculated by the pension level according to the provisions of the Social Insurance Law 2014 at the time of starting to receive pension multiplied by the adjustment rate corresponding to the period of SI payment and the time of receiving pension.
If you retire in 2018, the highest adjustment rate is 12.3%; the lowest is 1.08%, depending on the period of social insurance contribution. If you retire in 2019, the highest adjustment rate is 9.23%, the lowest is 0.81%, depending on the period of social insurance contribution.
According to Vietnam Social Security, the number of female workers starting to receive pensions in the 2018-2021 period and the number of people with 20 to 29 years and 6 months of social insurance contributions is about 91,000, including 20,500 people retiring in 2018; 22,000 people in 2019; 23,500 people in 2020 and 25,100 people in 2021.
Prohibition of meetings combined with sightseeing and vacation
Decision 45/2018 of the Prime Minister, effective from December 25, regulates the meeting regime in the management and operation activities of agencies in the state administrative system. Accordingly, there are 5 cases where meetings are not allowed to be held.
These are meetings to resolve regular work in the event of natural disasters or emergencies; meetings to resolve work that has been decentralized, delegated, or authorized to the head of a lower-level administrative agency to resolve; meetings to resolve work that has been prescribed by law by other means than through a meeting; meetings to listen to reports on the performance of tasks by lower-level agencies instead of direct inspection of lower-level agencies, units, and establishments; meetings combined with sightseeing, exchanges, vacations, or using the form of meetings to organize entertainment for cadres, civil servants, public employees, and workers.
