What is a professional title? Regulations on appointment and change of professional titles for public employees in Vietnam

What is a professional title? Regulations on appointment and change of professional titles for public employees in Vietnam (Internet image)

Regarding this issue, LawNet would like to answer as follows:

1. What is professional title?

According to Clause 1, Article 8 of the Law on Public Employees 2010, professional title is the name expressing professional qualification and capability of public employees in each professional field.

2. Regulations on appointment and change of professional titles for public employees in Vietnam

Regulations on appointment and change of professional titles for public employees in Vietnam under Article 31 of the Law on Public Employees 2010 are as follows:

- Appointment of public employees to hold professional titles must adhere to the following principles:

= Professional title matches working position:

= The public employee satisfies all criteria of the professional title which he/she is appointed to hold.

- Change of professional tiles of public employees shall be effected through examination or selection on the principles of equality, publicity, transparency, objectivity and legality.

- Public employees may register for examination or selection to change their professional titles if their public non-business units so need and they meet all conditions and criteria as provided by law.

- The Government shall specify the process and procedures for examination or selection and appointment of public employees to hold professional titles; and assign and delegate the examination, selection or appointment of public employees to professional titles.

Ministries and ministerial-level agencies assigned to perform the state management of fields of operation of public employees shall assume the prime responsibility for, and coordinate with the Ministry of Home Affairs in, specifying criteria of professional titles and conditions for examination or selection to change professional titles of public employees.

3. Rights of public employees in professional activities in Vietnam

Rights of public employees in professional activities under Article 11 of the Law on Public Employees 2010 are as follows:

- To he protected by law when performing professional activities.

- To be trained and retrained in order to raise their political, specialized and professional qualifications.

- To be provided with working equipment and working conditions.

- To be provided with information about their assigned work or tasks.

- To decide on professional matters related to their assigned work or tasks.

- To decline to perform work or tasks that is/are contrary to law.

- Other rights related to professional activities as provided by law.

4. Rights of public employees to salaries and salary-related regimes in Vietnam

Rights of public employees to salaries and salary-related regimes under Article 12 of the Law on Public Employees 2010 are as follows:

- To be paid with salaries matching working positions, professional titles, managerial posts and results of work or task performance; to enjoy allowances and preferential policies when working in mountainous, border, island, deep-lying, remote and ethnic minority areas and areas with extremely difficult socio-economic conditions or in hazardous and dangerous sectors or occupations or special non-business fields.

- To enjoy overtime and night work pays, working trip allowances and other benefits according to law and regulations of public non-business units.

- To enjoy monetary rewards and be considered for salary raise under law and regulations of public non-business units.

5. Rights of public employees to rest in Vietnam

Rights of public employees to rest under Article 13 of the Law on Public Employees 2010 are as follows:

- To take annual leaves, holidays and leaves for personal reasons under the labor law. Public employees who do not use any or all of prescribed annual leave days due to work requirements are entitled to a sum of money for those days on which they work.

- Public employees working in mountainous, border, island, deep-lying and remote areas and in other special cases may take leave days of 2 years at a time if they so wish. If wishing to take leave days of 3 years at a time, they shall obtain consent of the heads of their public non-business units.

- For special non-business fields, public employees may take paid leaves as provided by law.

- To lake unpaid leaves for plausible reasons and after obtaining consent of the heads of their public non-business units.

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