Working hours of officials and public employees at central agencies and local agencies are not standardized; therefore, the Draft Revised Labor Code has provisions to address this issue.
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Currently, the working hours in State agencies in practice are facing several issues, such as the lack of consistency between the working hours of central agencies and local agencies. Central agencies start work at 8 a.m., while most localities start at 7 a.m. in the summer or 7:30 a.m. in the winter.
Therefore, the Draft Revised Labor Code has proposed two options regarding the working hours of officials and public employees as follows:
- Option 1, added to the Labor Code regulation: “Assign the Government of Vietnam to uniformly regulate the starting and ending times of the working hours of administrative agencies nationwide.” The planned working hours are from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., with a 60-minute lunch break (excluding units or divisions that must be on duty 24/24 hours to ensure continuous work or directly resolve matters with the public). This option helps to unify the working hours of state administrative agencies from central to local levels, making them more consistent with the working hours of other countries.
- Option 2, retain the current practice, the working hours are not regulated in the Labor Code but prescribed in administrative documents (For Ministries, decided by the Prime Minister; for People's Committees and specialized agencies under the committee, decided by the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee).
View detailed content at Draft Revised Labor Code being released by the Ministry of Labor, Invalids, and Social Affairs for public consultation.
Duy Thinh
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