Decree No. 154/2025/ND-CP dated June 15, 2025 on streamlining payroll stipulates the subjects, principles, policies on streamlining payroll and responsibilities for implementing streamlining payroll in agencies, organizations, public service units of the Party, State, Vietnam Fatherland Front, socio-political organizations from central to communal level.
Subjects implementing the policy of streamlining payroll
The Decree clearly states that the subjects implementing the policy of streamlining payroll include:
1. Cadres, civil servants, public employees; commune-level cadres, civil servants and people working under labor contracts are subject to the same regimes and policies as civil servants according to Government regulations (hereinafter referred to as employees), if they fall into one of the following cases:
a) Civil servants, public employees and redundant workers due to organizational restructuring (except for beneficiaries of policies and regimes in the implementation of organizational restructuring of the political system according to separate regulations of the Government);
b) Cadres, civil servants, and public employees in leadership and management positions who cease to hold leadership and management positions or titles or are appointed or elected to leadership and management positions with lower salary or leadership allowance due to organizational restructuring, or individuals who voluntarily reduce their staffing levels and are approved by the agency, organization, or unit directly managing them (except for beneficiaries of policies and regimes in the implementation of organizational restructuring of the political system according to separate regulations of the Government);
c) Cadres, civil servants, and public employees in leadership and management positions or titles cease to hold due to restructuring or improving the quality of the leadership and management team according to a decision of a competent authority or due to a decision of a competent authority to cease holding a leadership and management position, or individuals voluntarily implement staff streamlining and are approved by the agency, organization, or unit directly managing them;
d) Surplus due to review and rearrangement of personnel according to the decision of competent authority or surplus due to rearrangement of personnel by public service units to implement the autonomous mechanism;
d) 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;
e) 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;
g) In the previous year or in the year of reviewing staff reduction, the quality is classified as not completing the assigned tasks related to the performance of assigned duties and responsibilities; in the previous year or in the year of reviewing staff reduction, the quality is classified as completing the assigned tasks but the individual voluntarily performs staff reduction and is approved by the agency, organization or unit directly managing him/her;
h) In the previous year or in the year of considering streamlining the payroll, the total number of days off work due to illness is equal to or higher than 200 days, with confirmation from the Social Insurance agency of payment of sickness allowance 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 according to regulations of law on social insurance, with confirmation from the Social Insurance agency of payment of sickness allowance according to current regulations of law, the individual voluntarily implements streamlining the payroll and is approved by the agency, organization or unit directly managing it.
2. People working under an indefinite-term labor contract performing professional and technical jobs in the list of specialized job titles and shared professional job titles in public service units according to Government regulations, redundant due to restructuring of the unit's human resources according to the decision of the competent authority or redundant due to rearrangement of the apparatus (except for beneficiaries of policies and regimes in the implementation of rearrangement of the apparatus of the political system according to separate regulations of the Government).
3. People working under indefinite-term labor contracts performing support and service work in administrative agencies and public service units as prescribed by law are redundant due to organizational restructuring (except for beneficiaries of policies and regimes in the implementation of organizational restructuring of the political system according to separate regulations of the Government).
4. Part-time workers at the commune level will retire immediately from the implementation of the 2-level local government model according to the provisions of the Law on Organization of Local Government.
Non-professional workers in villages and residential groups who are redundant due to village or residential group rearrangement shall retire immediately from the date of the rearrangement decision by the competent authority.
Subjects that have not yet implemented staff streamlining
According to the Decree, the subjects that have not yet implemented staff streamlining include:
People who are pregnant, on maternity leave, or raising children under 36 months old, except in cases where individuals voluntarily downsize their payroll.
Those who are under disciplinary review or criminal prosecution or are being inspected or examined due to signs of violations.
Early retirement policy
1. Subjects with a remaining life expectancy of 2 to 5 years to the retirement age specified in Appendix II issued with Decree No. 135/2020/ND-CP and having sufficient working time with compulsory social insurance payment to receive pension according to the provisions of the law on social insurance, including 15 years or more working in a heavy, toxic, dangerous or especially heavy, toxic, dangerous job on the list issued by the Government agency performing the function of state management of labor or having 15 years or more working in an area with particularly difficult socio -economic conditions issued by the Government agency performing the function of state management of labor, including working time in a place with a regional allowance coefficient of 0.7 or higher before January 1, 2021, in addition to enjoying the pension regime according to the provisions of the law on social insurance, are also entitled to the following regimes: after:
a) No deduction of pension rate due to early retirement;
b) Receive a subsidy of 5 months of current salary for each year of early retirement compared to the retirement age prescribed in Appendix II issued with Decree No. 135/2020/ND-CP;
c) Receive allowances based on working time with compulsory social insurance as follows:
For those who have 20 years of work experience with compulsory social insurance or more, the first 20 years of work experience with compulsory social insurance will receive a subsidy of 5 months of current salary; for the remaining years (from the 21st year onwards), each year will receive a subsidy equal to 0.5 months of current salary.
For those who have worked from 15 years to less than 20 years and paid compulsory social insurance, they will receive a subsidy of 5 months of current salary.
2. Subjects with a remaining life expectancy of 2 to 5 years to the retirement age specified in Appendix 1 issued with Decree No. 135/2020/ND-CP and having sufficient working time with compulsory social insurance payment to receive pension according to the provisions of the law on social insurance, in addition to enjoying the retirement regime according to the provisions of the law on social insurance, are also entitled to the following regimes:
a) No deduction of pension rate due to early retirement;
b) Receive a subsidy of 5 months of current salary for each year of early retirement compared to the retirement age prescribed in Appendix I issued with Decree No. 135/2020/ND-CP;
c) Receive allowances based on working time with compulsory social insurance as follows:
For those who have 20 years of work experience with compulsory social insurance or more, the first 20 years of work experience with compulsory social insurance will receive a subsidy of 5 months of current salary; for the remaining years (from the 21st year onwards), each year will receive a subsidy equal to 0.5 months of current salary.
For those who have worked from 15 years to less than 20 years and paid compulsory social insurance, they will receive a subsidy of 5 months of current salary.
3. Subjects who are less than 2 years old when reaching the retirement age specified in Appendix II issued with Decree No. 135/2020/ND-CP and have enough working time with compulsory social insurance to receive pension according to the provisions of the law on social insurance, including 15 years of working in a heavy, toxic, dangerous or especially heavy, toxic, dangerous job on the list issued by the Government agency performing the function of state management of labor or having 15 years of working in an area with particularly difficult socio-economic conditions issued by the Government agency performing the function of state management of labor, including working time in a place with a regional allowance coefficient of 0.7 or higher before January 1, 2021, shall receive pension according to the provisions of the law on social insurance and shall not have their pension rate deducted due to early retirement.
4. Subjects who are less than 2 years old and have reached the retirement age prescribed in Appendix I issued with Decree No. 135/2020/ND-CP and have enough working time with compulsory social insurance payment to receive pension according to the provisions of the law on social insurance shall enjoy pension according to the provisions of the law on social insurance and shall not have their pension rate deducted due to early retirement.
Policy on transferring to work at organizations that do not receive regular salaries from the state budget
1. Subjects transferred to work at organizations that do not receive regular funding from the state budget are entitled to the following benefits:
a) Receive a subsidy of 3 months of current salary;
b) Receive a subsidy of 0.5 months of current salary for each year of work with mandatory social insurance.
2. The policy specified in Clause 1 above shall not apply to those who have worked at a public service unit when the unit converts to a public service unit that self-insures regular expenses or a public service unit that self-insures regular expenses and investment expenses or an enterprise or is equitized and is still retained to work; Those who are subject to staff reduction with a remaining age of 3 years or less to the retirement age specified in Appendix II issued with Decree No. 135/2020/ND-CP, have enough working time with compulsory social insurance or more to receive pension according to the provisions of law, including 15 years of working in a heavy, toxic, dangerous or especially heavy, toxic, dangerous job on the list issued by the Government agency performing the function of state management of labor or have 15 years or more working in areas with particularly difficult socio-economic conditions issued by the Government agency performing the function of state management of labor, including working time in places with regional allowance coefficient of 0.7 or more before January 1, 2021; Those who are subject to staff reduction and are between 3 years old and under the retirement age specified in Appendix 1 issued with Decree No. 135/2020/ND-CP, have enough working time with compulsory social insurance or more to receive pension according to the provisions of the law on social insurance.
Severance policy
Immediate termination policy
Subjects who have not reached the retirement age as prescribed in Appendix I and Appendix II issued with Decree No. 135/2020/ND-CP and are not eligible for early retirement policies prescribed in this Decree, if they quit their jobs immediately, will enjoy the following benefits:
a) Receive a subsidy of 3 months of current salary to find a job;
b) Receive a subsidy of 1.5 months of current salary for each year of work with mandatory social insurance;
c) Reserve the time to pay compulsory social insurance or receive one-time social insurance according to the provisions of the law on social insurance.
Termination policy after apprenticeship
Subjects under 45 years old, with good health, sense of responsibility and sense of discipline but are undertaking jobs that are not suitable for their training level and major, and wish to quit their jobs, will be given the opportunity by the agency, organization or unit to go to vocational training before deciding to quit their jobs, find new jobs on their own, and enjoy the following benefits:
a) Receive full current salary and have social insurance, health insurance, unemployment insurance (if eligible for unemployment insurance) paid by the agency or unit during the vocational training period, but the maximum period of benefit is 6 months;
b) Receive a subsidy for vocational training fees equal to the cost of the vocational training course, up to 6 months of current salary, to be paid to the vocational training facility;
c) After completing vocational training, receive a subsidy of 3 months of current salary at the time of training to find a job;
d) Receive a subsidy of 0.5 months of current salary for each year of work with social insurance payment;
d) During the apprenticeship period, continuous working time is counted but seniority is not counted for annual salary increase.
e) Reserve the time to pay compulsory social insurance or receive one-time social insurance according to the provisions of the law on social insurance.
Policy for non-professional workers at the commune level to retire immediately from the implementation of the 2-level local government model according to the provisions of the Law on Organization of Local Government
1. Part-time workers at the commune level who have not reached retirement age as prescribed in Appendix I and Appendix II issued with Decree No. 135/2020/ND-CP (excluding subjects specified in Clause 2 of this Article) shall enjoy the following regimes:
a) For those with less than 5 years of work experience, the following benefits are enjoyed:
Receive a one-time allowance equal to 0.8 times the current monthly allowance multiplied by the number of months of service.
Receive a subsidy equal to 1.5 times the current monthly allowance for each year of service.
Receive 3 months of current monthly allowance to find a job.
Reserve compulsory social insurance payment period or receive one-time social insurance according to the provisions of the law on social insurance.
b) For those who have worked for 5 years or more and are less than 5 years old when they reach retirement age, they are entitled to the following benefits:
Receive a one-time benefit equal to 0.8 times the current monthly allowance multiplied by the number of months of early retirement compared to retirement age.
Receive a subsidy equal to 1.5 times the current monthly allowance for each year of service.
Receive 3 months of current monthly allowance to find a job.
Reserve compulsory social insurance payment period or receive one-time social insurance according to the provisions of the law on social insurance.
c) For those who have worked for 5 years or more and have at least 5 years left until retirement age, they are entitled to the following benefits:
Receive a one-time benefit equal to 0.8 times the current monthly allowance multiplied by 60 months.
Receive a subsidy equal to 1.5 times the current monthly allowance for each year of service.
Receive 3 months of current monthly allowance to find a job.
Reserve compulsory social insurance payment period or receive one-time social insurance according to the provisions of the law on social insurance.
2. For commune-level cadres and civil servants who are assigned to work as part-time commune-level workers due to the reorganization of commune-level administrative units in the 2023-2025 period, they will enjoy the same benefits as prescribed in Clause 1 of this Article, but the current monthly salary used to calculate the allowance is the salary of the previous month of the position of commune-level cadres and civil servants before being assigned to work as part-time workers at the commune level.
3. Part-time workers at the commune level who have reached retirement age as prescribed in Appendix I and Appendix II issued with Decree No. 135/2020/ND-CP or are receiving pension or disability benefits shall receive a one-time allowance equal to 15 months of the current monthly allowance.
4. Part-time workers at the commune level specified in Clauses 1, 2 and 3 of this Article shall not enjoy the policy of early retirement, the policy of transferring to work at organizations that do not receive regular salaries from the state budget, or the policy of termination of employment (specified in Articles 6, 7 and 8) of this Decree. At the same time, part-time workers at the commune level who retire immediately after the implementation of the 2-level local government model according to the provisions of the Law on Organization of Local Government and are arranged to work as part-time workers in villages and residential groups shall not enjoy the policies specified in this Decree.
Policy for part-time workers in villages and residential groups who are redundant due to village and residential group arrangement, immediately stop working from the time of the arrangement decision by the competent authority.
1. Part-time workers in villages and residential groups who have not reached retirement age as prescribed in Appendix I and Appendix II issued with Decree No. 135/2020/ND-CP (excluding subjects specified in Clause 2 of this Article) shall enjoy the following benefits:
a) For those with less than 5 years of work experience, the following benefits are enjoyed:
Receive a one-time allowance equal to 0.8 times the current monthly allowance multiplied by the number of months of service.
Receive a subsidy equal to 1.5 times the current monthly allowance for each year of service.
Receive 03 months of current monthly allowance to find a job.
Reserve compulsory social insurance payment period or receive one-time social insurance according to the provisions of the law on social insurance.
b) For those who have worked for 5 years or more and are less than 5 years old when they reach retirement age, they are entitled to the following benefits:
Receive a one-time benefit equal to 0.8 times the current monthly allowance multiplied by the number of months of early retirement compared to retirement age.
Receive a subsidy equal to 1.5 times the current monthly allowance for each year of service.
Receive 03 months of current monthly allowance to find a job.
Reserve compulsory social insurance payment period or receive one-time social insurance according to the provisions of the law on social insurance.
c) For those who have worked for 5 years or more and are at least 5 years old and have reached retirement age, they are entitled to the following benefits:
Receive a one-time benefit equal to 0.8 times the current monthly allowance multiplied by 60 months.
Receive a subsidy equal to 1.5 times the current monthly allowance for each year of service.
Receive 3 months of current monthly allowance to find a job.
Reserve compulsory social insurance payment period or receive one-time social insurance according to the provisions of the law on social insurance.
2. For commune-level cadres and civil servants who are assigned to work as part-time workers in villages and residential groups due to the reorganization of commune-level administrative units in the 2023-2025 period, they will enjoy the same benefits as prescribed in Clause 1 of this Article, but the current monthly salary used to calculate the allowance is the salary of the previous month of the position of commune-level cadres and civil servants before being assigned to work as part-time workers in villages and residential groups.
3. Part-time workers in villages and residential groups who have reached retirement age as prescribed in Appendix I and Appendix II issued with Decree No. 135/2020/ND-CP or are receiving pension or disability benefits shall receive a one-time allowance equal to 15 months of the current monthly allowance.
4. Part-time workers in villages and residential groups specified in Clauses 1, 2 and 3 of this Article shall not enjoy the Early Retirement policy, the policy of transferring to work at organizations that do not receive regular salaries from the state budget, or the Termination Policy (specified in Articles 6, 7 and 8) of this Decree.
This Decree takes effect from June 16, 2025; replacing Decree No. 29/2023/ND-CP dated June 3, 2023 of the Government regulating staff streamlining.
The regimes and policies prescribed in this Decree shall apply until December 31, 2030.
Source: https://baoninhbinh.org.vn/nghi-dinh-154-2025-nd-cp-quy-dinh-moi-ve-tinh-gian-bien-che-192984.htm
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