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The Ministry of Interior is seeking public input on a draft decree amending and supplementing several provisions of Government Decree 179/2024/ND-CP, which sets policies to attract and employ talented people across agencies, organizations, units of the Communist Party of Vietnam, the State, the Fatherland Front, and social-political organizations.
The draft decree clarifies recruitment forms into the civil service and the level of first-attraction allowances for each target group.
For talented civil servants, the draft adds that they may be advanced by one pay grade and receive a monthly allowance equal to 300% of the current salary.
For outstanding graduates, eligible candidates include university and postgraduate students who completed with excellent or higher honors at reputable universities worldwide.
The draft also removes the category of young scientists (PhD and certain medical and pharmaceutical specialists) from the outstanding-graduate group.
For young scientists under 47 with titles such as associate professor and professor, the draft adds requirements related to awards, research works, achievements, inventions, and patents. For experts, managers, enterprise leaders, and legal professionals, the draft adds requirements on experience and tenure.
The draft revises the application of principles from annual evaluation to continuous and regular evaluation to align with monitoring and assessment principles.
It also amends provisions to ensure consistency with the 2025 Law on Civil Servants and the 2025 Law on Public Employees, including removing provisions for commune-level civil servants and revising job titles and professional titles for public employees.
The draft permits ministries and provincial-level People’s Committees to mobilize resources to implement the policy within their management scope.
In line with sector requirements, a talent support fund may be established outside the budget to manage funding for the policy, with the condition that it ensures no increase in staff.
For the state budget, the draft provides that 10% of the total basic wage fund (excluding allowances) will be allocated to implement the policy for talented individuals.
The draft also references projected salary and allowance calculations under the new base salary from July 1, along with related items.
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