1/ Decree No. 335/2025/NĐ-CP dated December 21, 2025, issued by the Government, promulgates regulations on the evaluation and classification of quality for state administrative agencies and civil servants.
The Decree takes effect from January 1, 2026. Accordingly, Decree No. 335/2025/NĐ-CP provides for a number of the following contents:
- Scope of application: This Decree regulates the principles, criteria, authority, order, and procedures for evaluating and classifying the quality of state administrative agencies and civil servants in agencies of the Communist Party of Vietnam, the State, the Vietnam Fatherland Front, and socio-political organizations from the central to the commune level.
- Organizational quality rating level
+ Outstanding performance: Achieving 90 points or more, while also meeting the following conditions:
a) Complete 100% of assigned tasks on time, ensuring quality and efficiency; with at least 30% of tasks completed exceeding requirements;
b) No directly subordinate units (if any) are rated as failing to complete their tasks;
c) All limitations and shortcomings identified in the previous evaluation period or from the conclusions of inspections and audits by competent authorities (if any) have been rectified.
+ Excellent performance: Achieved 70 to under 90 points, and completed 100% of assigned tasks on time, ensuring quality and efficiency.
+ Satisfactory performance: Achieved 50 to under 70 points, and completed 100% of assigned tasks, with the number of tasks not meeting deadlines not exceeding 20%.
+ Unsatisfactory performance: Total evaluation score below 50 points or falls into one of the following categories:
a) Concluded by competent authorities to have committed violations in personnel management, internal disunity, factionalism, or seeking positions and power through illicit means.
b) Completed less than 70% of tasks according to the program and plan for the year. In cases where tasks are not completed due to force majeure, the competent authority shall consider the conditions, circumstances, nature of the task, results of implementation; the behavior, extent of violations, consequences, causes, and other relevant factors to review, evaluate, and classify the performance, ensuring objectivity, comprehensiveness, prudence, and accountability for its decision according to the hierarchical structure.
- Classification levels for civil servant performance:
+ Excellent performance: 90 points or more.
+ Good performance: 70 points or more but less than 90 points.
+ Satisfactory performance: 50 points to less than 70 points.
+ Failure to complete tasks in one of the following cases:
a) Having a monitoring and evaluation score below 50 points.
b) Being concluded by the competent authority to have signs of ideological and political degradation, moral decay, lifestyle deviations, "self-evolution," "self-transformation"; violating the rules that Party members are not allowed to break; violating the responsibility of setting an example, negatively affecting the reputation of oneself and the agency or unit where one works.
c) Having committed violations related to official duties that resulted in disciplinary action from reprimand upwards in the evaluation year.
d) The agency, organization, or unit under direct supervision and management is involved in embezzlement, corruption, or waste and is being dealt with according to the law (for civil servants holding leadership and management positions).
2. Decree No. 293/2025/NĐ-CP dated November 10, 2025, issued by the Government, promulgates regulations on the minimum wage applicable to employees working under labor contracts.
The Decree takes effect from January 01, 2026. Accordingly, Decree No. 293/2025/NĐ-CP provides for a number of the following contents:
- Scope of application: This Decree stipulates the minimum monthly wage and minimum hourly wage applicable to employees working under labor contracts.
- Applicable subjects:
+ Employees working under labor contracts as prescribed by the Labor Code.
+ Employers as prescribed by the Labor Code, including:
a) Enterprises as defined in the Law on Enterprises.
b) Authorities, organizations, cooperatives, household businesses, and individuals that employ other people under agreements.
+ Other authorities, organizations and individuals involved in the application of the statutory minimum wages as prescribed in this Decree.
- Minimum wage: The region-based statutory minimum wages per month and per hour paid to employees are provided for as follows:
- Region I: The regional minimum wage increases from VND 4.96 million/month to VND 5.31 million/month (minimum hourly wage increases from VND 23,800/hour to VND 25,500/hour).
- Region II: The regional minimum wage increases from VND 4.41 million/month to VND 4.73 million/month (minimum hourly wage increases from VND 21,200/hour to VND 22,700/hour).
- Region II: The regional minimum wage increased from VND 3.86 million/month to VND 4.14 million/month (minimum hourly wage increased from VND 18,600/hour to VND 20,000/hour).
- Region IV: The regional minimum wage increased from VND 3.45 million/month to VND 3.7 million/month (minimum hourly wage increased from VND 16,600/hour to VND 17,800/hour).
- Application of statutory minimum wages:
+ The statutory minimum wage per month is the minimum wage used as the basis for any agreement between employers and employees on monthly salary and payment thereof. The job- or position-based salary of an employee who ensures the normal working hours in a month and has fulfilled his/her labor productivity norms or agreed-upon tasks shall not be lower than the statutory minimum wage per month.
+ The statutory minimum wage per hour is the minimum wage used as the basis for any agreement between employers and employees on hourly salary and payment thereof. The job- or position-based salary paid for every working hour of an employee who has fulfilled his/her labor productivity norms or agreed-upon tasks shall not be lower than the statutory minimum wage per hour.
+ In case an employee receives weekly or daily salary, piecework pay or a predetermined payment, the wages paid to the employee, when converted into monthly or hourly salary, shall not be lower than the statutory minimum wage per month or per hour. The normal working hours-based converted monthly or hourly salary shall be subjected to the employer's decision in accordance with regulations of law. To be specific:
a) The converted monthly salary shall equal the weekly salary multiplied by 52 weeks divided by 12 months; or the daily salary multiplied by total normal working days in a month; or the piecework pay or predetermined payment for the works performed during normal working hours in a month.
b) The converted hourly salary shall equal the weekly salary and daily salary divided by the normal working hours in a week and a day respectively; or the piecework pay or predetermined payment divided by the working hours, considered as normal working hours, spent for producing a predetermined quantity of products or performing assigned works.
3. Resolution No. 43/2025/NQ-HĐND dated December 10, 2025, issued by the People's Council of Dong Nai Province, promulgates regulations on the fee rates for the issuance of work permits to foreign employees working in Dong Nai Province.
The Resolution takes effect from January 01, 2026. Accordingly, Resolution No. 43/2025/NQ-HĐND stipulates the following contents:
- Scope of application: The Resolution regulates the fee rates, collection, payment, management, and use of fees for issuing, reissuing, and extending work permits for foreigners working in Dong Nai Province.
- Applicable subjects:
a) Agencies, organizations, enterprises, and individuals employing foreign workers in Dong Nai Province;
b) Dong Nai Department of Home Affairs collects fees for issuing, reissuing, and extending work permits for foreigners working in enterprises, organizations, and individuals located outside industrial zones, according to the authorization/delegation decision of the Provincial People's Committee;
c) Dong Nai Industrial and Economic Zones Authority collects fees for issuing, reissuing, and extending work permits for foreigners working in enterprises, organizations, and individuals within industrial zones, economic zones, and high-tech zones under its management, according to the authorization/delegation decision of the Provincial People's Committee.
- Fee rates:
+ For direct administrative procedures:
a) New issuance of work permit: 600,000 VND/permit;
b) Reissuance/renewal of work permit: 450,000 VND/permit.
+ For administrative procedures using online public services: 0 VND.
4. Decision No. 84/2025/QD-UBND dated December 24, 2025, of the People's Committee of Dong Nai province promulgating the Decision on decentralization of authority for issuing, reissuing, renewing, and revoking work permits and certificates of exemption from work permit requirements in Dong Nai province.
The Decision takes effect from January 5, 2026. Accordingly, Decision No. 84/2025/QĐ-UBND provides for the following contents:
- Scope of application: This Decision delegates the authority to issue, reissue, extend, and revoke work permits and certificates of exemption from work permit requirements for foreign workers working in Dong Nai province, as stipulated in Clause 2, Article 4 of Decree No. 219/2025/ND-CP on foreign workers working in Vietnam.
- Applicable subjects:
+ Foreign employees are foreign nationals who come to work within Dong Nai Province in accordance with Clause 1, Article 2 and Article 3 of Decree No. 219/2025/NĐ-CP, which provides for foreign employees working in Viet Nam
+ Employers as defined in Clause 2, Article 2 of Decree No. 219/2025/ND-CP, with branch offices, representative offices, or business locations in Dong Nai province.
+ Dong Nai Department of Home Affairs; Dong Nai Industrial and Economic Zones Authority; and other organizations and individuals involved in the state management of foreign workers working in the province.
- Decentralization content 1.
+ Dong Nai Department of Home Affairs is authorized to issue, reissue, extend, and revoke work permits and certificates of exemption from work permit requirements for foreign workers employed by employers with headquarters, branches, representative offices, or business locations outside industrial parks and economic zones within the province.
+ Dong Nai Industrial and Economic Zones Authority are authorized to issue, reissue, extend, and revoke work permits and certificates of exemption from work permit requirements for foreign workers employed by employers with headquarters, branches, representative offices, or business locations within industrial parks, economic zones, and high-tech zones within the province.