On 7.4, according to the Government Portal, implementing the conclusions of the Politburo, the Secretariat on the policy of arranging administrative units at all levels and building a two -level local government and the Ministry of Home Affairs assigned to advise the development of the Project to submit to the Politburo, the Central Executive Committee;
At the same time, draft the Law on Local Government (amended) and relevant guiding documents to implement the two-level government model.
In the draft Law on Local Government (amended), the Ministry of Home Affairs proposes regulations on organization of two -level local government activities in the direction after dissolution of the district and local authorities in addition to performing the current tasks and powers, which will be in charge of the district's powers.
Therefore, local authorities at the commune level will be given more power; the organization of the apparatus and the civil service and public service regime will be innovated, ensuring requirements and tasks.
At that time, the administrative procedures previously carried out at the district level will be directly implemented by the commune level.
Notably, the Ministry of Home Affairs said that there will be many policies for cadres and civil servants affected by the arrangement of administrative units and the merger of provinces and communes. This is also an issue of special concern to the Party and State.
For special policies applied to people in the area, they remain the same as before being reorganized.
For cadres, civil servants and workers, there will be 4 policies as follows:
First: Implement a unified civil service and public employee regime from the central to the commune level, without distinguishing between central and provincial civil servants and commune-level civil servants as at present.
Second: Review and screen the arrangement of people who meet the requirements of capacity and expertise to continue working at agencies, organizations and units.
Third: There are policies to preserve salaries and allowances for those who are assigned lower positions and titles, or who do not hold positions for a certain period of time.
Fourth: For cases of early retirement wishes or failure to meet requirements and tasks, there will be preferential regimes and policies, applied according to Decree 178 of 2024 and Decree 67 of 2025 of the Government on policies and regimes for civil servants, employees, and armed forces in implementing the arrangement of the political apparatus.
In which, according to Decree 67, in cases of early retirement with 2 to 5 years remaining until retirement age and having enough working time with compulsory social insurance (SI) contributions to receive pension according to regulations, in addition to receiving pension benefits, they are also entitled to benefits such as:
No deduction of pension rate due to early retirement; Receive a subsidy of 5 months of current salary for each year of early retirement;
Receive a subsidy of 5 months of current salary for the first 20 years of work with compulsory social insurance contributions. From the 21st year onwards, for each year of work with compulsory social insurance contributions, a subsidy of 0.5 months of current salary will be granted...
