Latest public employee recruitment registration conditions in Vietnam

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1. What is recruitment of public employees?

Pursuant to Clause 4, Article 3 of the Law on Public Employees 2010 on recruitment:

Recruit means to select persons with qualities, qualifications and capabilities to work as public employee in public non-business units.

2. Bases for public employee recruitment in Vietnam

Article 20 of the Law on Public Employees 2010 stipulates the bases for public employee recruitment in Vietnam as follows:

Recruitment of public employees must be based on work demand, working positions, criteria of professional titles and salary funds of public non-business units.

3. Principles of management of public employees in Vietnam

Pursuant to Article 6 of the Law on Public Employees 2010 stipulates the principles of management of public employees in Vietnam as follows:

- Assurance of the leadership by the Communist Party of Vietnam and the uniform management by the State.

- Assurance of the right to lake the initiative and enhancement of the responsibility of heads of public non-business units.

- Recruitment, employment, management and evaluation of public employees arc based on criteria of professional titles, working positions and working contracts.

- Implementation of gender equality and preferential treatment policies of the State toward public employees who are talented people, ethnic minority people, people with meritorious services to the revolution and who work in mountainous, border, island, remote, deep-lying and ethnic minority areas and areas with extremely difficult socio­economic conditions, and other preferential treatment policies of the State toward public employees.

4. Principles of public employee recruitment

The principles of public employee recruitment are stipulated in Article 20 of the Law on Public Employees 2010 as follows:

- Ensuring publicity, transparency, equality, objectivity and legality.

- Ensuring competitiveness.

- Selecting right persons who meet requirements of working positions.

- Enhancing the responsibility of heads of public non-business units.

- Giving priority to talented people, people with meritorious services to the revolution and ethnic minority people.

5. Recruitment registration conditions in Vietnam 

Article 22 of the Law on Public Employees 2010 amended in 2019 stipulates the conditions for recruitment registration as follows:

- A person who meets all the following conditions, regardless of nationality, gender, social status, belief and religion, may register for public employee recruitment:

= Bearing Vietnamese citizenship and residing in Vietnam:

= Reaching full 18 years of age. For a number of areas of cultural activity, arts. physical training and spoils, the age eligible for recruitment may be lower as provided by law with written consent of at-law representatives:

= Filing an application for recruitment:

= Having a clear personal background;

=Possessing diplomas, training certificates or practice certificates or aptitude and skills relevant to the working position for which he/she applies:

= Being physically fit for work or tasks;

= Meeting other conditions required by the working position for which he/she applies and determined by the public non-business unit, which must not be contrary to law.

- The following persons may not register for public employee recruitment:

= Having lost civil act capacity or having such capacity restricted;

= Being examined for penal liability; currently serving a criminal sentence or ruling of the court or serving the administrative measure of confinement to a medical treatment establishment, an educational institution or a reformatory.

6. Organization of recruitment of public employees in Vietnam

- For autonomous public non-business units, their heads may recruit public employees and take responsibility for their decisions.

For non-autonomous public non-business units, their managing agencies shall recruit public employees or authorize heads of such units to recruit public employees.

- Based on recruitment results, heads of public non-business units shall sign working contracts with recruited public employees.

* Method of recruitment of public employees: Recruitment of public employees shall be conducted through examination or selection.

(Article 23, Article 24 of Law on Public Employees 2010)

Ngoc Nhi

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