Civil servants will be temporarily suspended if they harass people and businesses.

The Ministry of Home Affairs has just issued Decision No. 727, which includes administrative procedures related to the temporary suspension of civil servants and public employees to ensure integrity and effectiveness in performing public duties.

According to this decision, civil servants can be temporarily suspended from work if they violate ethical qualities and lifestyle, negatively affecting public opinion or the reputation of organizations and individuals. In addition, acts of harassment, negativity, causing trouble for people and businesses; deliberately delaying, shirking responsibility or failing to perform assigned tasks are also subject to consideration for temporary suspension.

Civil servants who are being considered and disciplined but intentionally do not comply with the request of competent authorities during the process of considering and handling their own violations or take advantage of their position, authority, or influence or that of others to influence or cause difficulties in the consideration and handling or if they continue to work, may cause difficulties in the consideration and handling of discipline, will also be temporarily suspended from work.

Similarly, civil servants who have been disciplined by the Party and are awaiting review and handling of their government positions, and if they continue to work, will negatively affect the operations of the agency, organization, or unit, are also subject to temporary suspension.

Temporary suspension from work may also be carried out upon written request from inspection, audit, litigation agencies or other competent authorities.

Other cases are handled according to the provisions of law or at the request of competent authorities.

The decision to temporarily suspend must be made no later than 2 working days from the date of determining the basis for temporary suspension. The agency or department advising on organization and personnel is responsible for reporting and proposing to the head to issue a decision to temporarily suspend.

No later than 2 working days from the date of receiving the proposal from the agency, the staff department on organization and personnel, the head shall decide to temporarily suspend the civil servant from work.

In case of temporary suspension from work that is not in accordance with regulations or when there is a conclusion that the civil servant has not violated any regulations, no later than 3 working days from the date of having sufficient grounds, the head shall issue a decision to cancel the decision to temporarily suspend the civil servant from work and at the same time report to the competent authority managing the civil servant.

The decision to temporarily suspend work and the decision to cancel the decision to temporarily suspend work (if any) must be announced in the agency, organization, or unit employing the civil servant and sent to relevant agencies, organizations, and individuals.

Cases of dismissal of civil servants, leaders and managers

The decision of the Ministry of Home Affairs also specifically stipulates the procedure for dismissal of civil servants and officials in leadership and management positions. Accordingly, civil servants in leadership and management positions will be considered for dismissal if they are disciplined with reprimands or warnings; have more than 2/3 of the votes of confidence at the voting period as prescribed; or are classified as not completing their tasks.

Civil servants can also be dismissed if they are concluded by competent authorities to have degraded political ideology, ethics, and lifestyle; to have shown signs of "self-evolution" or "self-transformation"; or to have violated things that Party members are not allowed to do, responsibilities to set an example, negatively affecting the reputation of the individual and the agency, organization, or unit where they are working; to have violated political standards according to the Party's regulations on internal political protection to the extent that they must be dismissed.

The competent authority shall consider dismissing a leading or managerial civil servant who is the head of an agency, organization, or unit under his/her management, charge, or direct subordinate where very serious corruption or negativity occurs.

For management officials, consideration for dismissal is carried out in cases of disciplinary warning or reprimand which the competent authority determines to be limited capacity and reduced prestige; officials are disciplined with reprimand or warning 2 times or more during the same term of appointment; have 2 consecutive years of quality classification as not completing tasks.