Leaders can be removed from office if they appoint relatives to positions of human resource management.

Decree No. 59/2019/ND-CP stipulates the dismissal of heads of agencies who arrange their spouses, parents, children, siblings to hold management positions in personnel organization in the agency or to transact or sign contracts for that agency, organization or unit and have been disciplined in the form of warning.

Specifically, Decree No. 59/2019/ND-CP clearly stipulates a warning penalty for the head or deputy head of an agency, organization or unit who, for the first time, arranges for his or her spouse, father, mother, child, brother, or sister to hold a management position in personnel organization, accounting, cashier, or warehouse keeper in the agency, organization or unit, or to transact, buy and sell goods, services, or sign contracts for that agency, organization or unit.

Agency leaders do not appoint relatives to management positions. Illustration photo: KT

In particular, the removal from office of the head or deputy head of an agency, organization or unit who arranges his or her spouse, father, mother, child, brother, sister or sibling to hold a management position in personnel organization, accounting, cashier or warehouse keeper in the agency, organization or unit or to transact, buy and sell goods, services, sign contracts for that agency, organization or unit and has been disciplined in the form of warning; the head or deputy head of a state agency contributes capital to an enterprise operating in the field or profession that he or she directly performs state management or allows his or her spouse, father, mother or child to do business in the field or profession that he or she directly performs state management.

In addition, the Decree also stipulates forms of handling violations in the implementation of publicity, transparency, regimes, norms, standards...

Accordingly, those who perform public duties and tasks in violation of regulations on publicity and transparency shall be handled as follows:

- Reprimand for those who violate regulations on content, form, and time limit for public disclosure, information provision, accountability, and reporting regime on anti-corruption work;
- Warning for those who do not publicly disclose, do not organize press conferences, do not provide information, do not explain, do not develop, do not publicly report on anti-corruption work.

Heads of agencies, organizations and units who violate regulations on organization, direction, inspection and supervision of implementation of publicity and transparency will be subject to disciplinary action in the form of warnings.

Regarding the regime, norms and standards, the Decree stipulates that those who allow the use of regulations on norms, standards and regimes that are not yet serious enough to be prosecuted for criminal liability shall be disciplined in the form of a warning; must return the value of the illegal use and compensate for any damage that occurs.

For those who use in violation of regulations on norms, standards and regimes but not to the extent of being prosecuted for criminal liability, they must jointly compensate for the value of the use exceeding the regulations and be handled as follows: - In case of not knowing that the use is against the regulations, they will be disciplined by reprimand; - In case of knowing or being forced to know that the use is against the regulations, they will be disciplined by warning.

Those who arbitrarily use regulations on norms, standards and regimes that are not yet serious enough to be prosecuted for criminal liability shall be disciplined in the form of a warning; must return the value of the illegal use and compensate if causing damage./.