Only civil servants who are aged 40 years or younger and have worked in state offices for at least five years may be allowed to further their academic learning in disciplines useful for their jobs.
These persons should also commit to continuing their current jobs or public duties upon completion of these courses for a period three times the course duration.
This principle is set out in Government Decree No. 18/2010/ND-CP of March 5 on training and retraining of civil servants, effective on May 1. Another principle is that training and retraining plans must be based on working positions and criteria for specific civil servant ranks and leaderships and managerial posts and human resource development needs of agencies, and organized in an open and transparent manner.
To be promoted to a leadership or managerial post, a civil servant must obtain a certificate of training or retraining according to his/her specific rank or post criteria.
There are four training and retraining regimes: internship, training based on civil servant rank criteria, training and retraining based on leadership or managerial post criteria, and annual compulsory training in minimum professional knowledge and skills.
Also regarding civil servants, Decree No. 21/2010/ND-CP of March 8, on management of civil servant payrolls, stipulates that payrolls must be adjusted upon reorganization, disband or change in functions, tasks and powers of state agencies, organizations or units as decided by competent authorities, or establishment, consolidation, division or adjustment of boundaries of provincial- and district-level administrative units.
It replaces provisions on civil servant payrolls of Decree No. 71/2003/ND-CP of June 19, 2003, on decentralization of management of administrative and non-business staff payrolls.
Later on March 15, the Government issued Decree No. 24/2010/ND-CP to govern recruitment, employment and management of civil servants. Accordingly, three groups of people, including labor or armed forces heroes, war invalids, ethnic minority people, servicemen of the army or public security forces, children of fallen heroes and war invalids, youth and intellectual volunteers, will be given priority to be recruited as civil servants.
Civil servants should pass four exams on general knowledge, professional knowledge, foreign language and office informatics.-