Hundreds of thousands of non-professional staff receive appropriate severance pay.

After listening to many opinions about the unreasonable and disproportionate regime for part-time workers at the commune, village, and residential group levels who quit their jobs during the restructuring of the apparatus, the Ministry of Home Affairs quickly developed a plan to submit to the Government for consideration and approval.

One of the notable contents in Decree 154/2025 regulating staff streamlining, which has just been issued by the Government and takes effect from June 16, is the addition of many policies and regimes for this group of subjects to be applied until the end of 2030.

Currently, the whole country has more than 120,000 part-time workers at the commune level and this group will end their activities before June 30.

Before Decree 154, part-time workers who quit their jobs within 12 months from the date of the arrangement decision of the competent authority were entitled to policies according to the provisions of Decree No. 29 on streamlining the payroll.

According to Resolution 29, part-time workers who do not hold elected positions will receive benefits based on the number of months off before the end of the reorganization roadmap.

Specifically, for each month of retirement before the end of the arrangement, the allowance is equal to 1/2 of the current monthly allowance. For those who retire before the end of the arrangement, the number of months of allowance is calculated by the number of months of retirement before the retirement date mentioned above.

For non-professional workers holding elected positions, the basis for calculating the time to enjoy the regime is based on the number of months off before the end of the term.

However, because the monthly allowance for part-time workers at the commune level is currently not high, the severance allowance for these subjects is very low.

There are part-time workers in the commune, holding two positions, with 14 years of working experience but their monthly salary is only over 4 million VND.

Meanwhile, many people are assessed to have many years of dedication to the locality, some of whom undertake a workload no different from that of civil servants or public employees.

Even some local leaders pointed out the fact that a large number of part-time workers are qualified, capable and young, dynamic people, but because there is not enough staff, they have to be arranged to work part-time, and now they have to quit their jobs, which is a great disadvantage for them.

Taking note of opinions from insiders as well as National Assembly delegates on the rights of this group after leaving work, the Ministry of Home Affairs has issued an official dispatch requesting the Provincial People's Committee to study and propose policies for non-professional workers at the commune, village and residential group levels, and send them to the Ministry of Home Affairs for synthesis and submission to the Government for consideration and decision.

At the end of May, the Ministry submitted to the Government a draft Decree replacing Decree No. 29/2023 on streamlining staff, including many proposals for major changes in the regime and policies on leave for part-time workers at the commune, village, and residential group levels.

With urgent time, on June 15, the Government issued Decree No. 154 regulating staff streamlining to replace Decree 29/2023.

Accordingly, policies for non-professional workers at the commune level have been supplemented. Specifically, non-professional workers at the commune level who have not reached retirement age are entitled to one-time subsidies, subsidies based on years of service, subsidies for job search, reserving compulsory social insurance payment period or receiving one-time social insurance.

Non-professional workers in villages and residential groups who are redundant due to reorganization are also entitled to severance benefits similar to those at the commune level.

Nguyen Thao