Voluntary Youth in the Process of Implementing Programs, Proposals, Projects: What Policies Are They Entitled To?
What policies are volunteer youth entitled to during the implementation of programs, projects, and plans?
Pursuant to the provisions in Article 9 of Decree 17/2021/ND-CP, the policies for volunteer youth during the implementation of programs, projects, and plans include:
- Being contracted by competent agencies or organizations; enjoying all policies for employees as stipulated by labor law, social insurance law, and health insurance law.
- Receiving salary or wages, allowances, subsidies, travel expenses, and other policies stipulated in the program, project, or plan approved by the competent authority.
- Being equipped with necessary working means and personal protective equipment to ensure safety suitable to the volunteer activity requirements.
- Receiving training and enhancement of knowledge and necessary skills during the implementation of assigned tasks.
- Being assigned tasks suitable to their trained professional qualifications and the need for organizing and using volunteer youth.
- Participating in collective activities; being considered for joining the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union and the Communist Party of Vietnam according to the Charter of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union and the Charter of the Communist Party of Vietnam.
- Being facilitated by local authorities and units where volunteer activities take place regarding accommodation; and participating in local political, cultural, and social activities.
- Being considered and screened by local authority leadership particularly in the context of developing future cadres according to local leadership and management planning.
- For youth voluntary programs, projects with high efficiency and feasibility, the local government where the volunteer activities take place will consider supporting the implementation.
- If a volunteer youth dies or is injured due to brave acts falling into the categories regulated by the law for preferential treatment of those with meritorious service to the revolution, the local People's Committee where the volunteer activities take place will propose the authorities recognize them as martyrs or grant policies as war invalids per the legal provisions on preferential treatment for those with meritorious service to the revolution.
- In case a volunteer youth dies, they are entitled to a burial allowance according to the social insurance law, with support from local authorities to transport the body to their hometown or family upon the family's request.
What policies are volunteer youth entitled to during the implementation of programs, projects, and plans? (Image from the Internet)
What policies are volunteer youth entitled to after completing programs, projects, and plans?
According to the provisions in Article 10 of Decree 17/2021/ND-CP, the policies for volunteer youth after completing programs, projects, and plans include:
- Being granted a certificate of participation in volunteer activities by the local authorities where the activities took place.
- Being considered, planned, trained, and utilized by competent authorities or the unit where the volunteer activities took place if they excellently complete the tasks during the volunteer period and wish to continue working locally.
- Receiving one-time support equivalent to half of their current monthly salary or wages after completing the assigned tasks.
- Enjoying vocational training support policies associated with job creation as prescribed by law.
- Volunteer youths wishing to settle and establish careers in regions of ethnic minorities and mountainous areas, remote and isolated regions, border areas, islands, and regions with particularly difficult socio-economic conditions will be entitled to state policies on socio-economic development according to their place of settlement.
What responsibilities do youth have toward themselves and their families?
According to Article 14 of the Youth Law 2020 and Article 15 of the Youth Law 2020, youth responsibilities towards their families and themselves are as follows:
Responsibilities towards the family
- Taking care of family happiness; preserving and promoting the good traditions of the Vietnamese family.
- Showing respect and filial piety towards grandparents, parents, and respecting other family members; taking care of and educating children within the family.
- Actively preventing and combating domestic violence, and eliminating backward customs and practices regarding marriage and family.
Responsibilities towards oneself
- Cultivating morality, personality, cultural lifestyle, civilized behavior; having citizenship responsibility and law compliance awareness; preventing and combating social evils, illegal behaviors, and unethical conduct.
- Actively studying, improving professional qualifications, knowledge, and skills; accessing, researching, and applying science and technology into practice.
- Proactively understanding the labor market; choosing suitable professions and jobs; cultivating responsibility consciousness, labor discipline, and professional demeanor; being creative and improving labor productivity through technical innovation.
- Training, protecting, caring for, and enhancing health; developing physical and mental well-being; equipping oneself with life skills, reproductive health knowledge, sexual health knowledge, and disease prevention; avoiding alcohol abuse; limiting smoking; not using narcotics, addictive substances, or other stimulants banned by law; preventing harm from cyberspace.
- Actively participating in cultural, physical exercise, and sports activities; protecting, preserving, and promoting national cultural identities; absorbing the quintessence of human culture.
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