THE GOVERNMENT
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SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIET NAM
Independence - Freedom - Happiness
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No: 115/2003/ND-CP
Hanoi, October 10, 2003
 DECREE
ON THE REGIME OF RESERVE PUBLIC EMPLOYEES
THE GOVERNMENT
Pursuant to the December 25, 2001 Law on Organization of the Government;
Pursuant to the February 26, 1998 Ordinance on Officials and Public Employees and the April 29, 2003 Ordinance amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Ordinance on Officials and Public Employees;
At the proposal of the Minister of Home Affairs,
DECREES:
Chapter I
GENERAL PROVISIONS
Article 1.- Subject and scope of regulation
This Decree prescribes the regime of recruitment and employment of reserve public employees as well as their rights and interests, things that they must not do, regimes and policies towards, and management of them.
Article 2.- Reserve public employees
Reserve public employees are Vietnamese citizens who are on the payroll, enjoy salaries from the State budget and are recruited for addition to the contingent of officials and public employees prescribed at Points b and c, Clause 1, Article 1 of the April 29, 2003 Ordinance amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Ordinance on Officials and Public Employees. Reserve public employees are assigned to work for certain periods in the following agencies and organizations: