Vietnam: Supplementing eligibility requirements for paygrade advancement for officials from 2019

Specifically, according to Clause 14 Article 1 of Decree No. 161/2018/NĐ-CP of Vietnam’s Government amending Article 29 of Decree No. 24/2010/NĐ-CP, in order to register for an advancement exam, candidates have to meet the following eligibility requirements:

- The candidate shall have well fulfilled his/her duties in the year preceding the year of the advancement exam; have political credentials and good ethics; be not liable to any disciplinary measures or consideration by a competent authority for deciding disciplinary measures; (according to Decree No. 24/2010/NĐ-CP, the candidate shall have well fulfilled his/her duties within three latest consecutive years)

- He/she has professional qualifications and capabilities to undertake the working positions corresponding to the civil servant rank higher than their current rank in the same professional sector;

- He/she meets diploma, certificate and other requirements on professional standards of the civil servant rank they have registered for examinations;

- He/she has been holding the current paygrade for a full period of at least 01 year (12 months) up to the deadline for submission of application for the advancement exam. (This is a completely new addition in Decree No. 161/2018/NĐ-CP, the previous regulation in Decree No. 24/2010/NĐ-CP did not have this condition)

Moreover, according to Decree No. 161/2018/NĐ-CP of Vietnam’s Government, the official-managing agency shall assume legal responsibility for the satisfaction of eligibility requirements by the officials they recommended for the paygrade advancement, and manage and retain candidates’ registration dossiers as prescribed by laws.

Nguyen Trinh

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