Civil servants and public employees who have repeatedly denounced bad intentions are disciplined and forced to resign

Legal Consulting Office of Lao Dong Newspaper answers:

Article 7 of Decree 156/2026/ND-CP (effective from July 1, 2026) amending and supplementing Article 23 of Decree No. 31/2019/ND-CP on disciplinary action against whistleblowers who are cadres, civil servants, and public employees stipulates as follows:

4. The form of disciplinary action of dismissal or dismissal applies to the whistleblower when there is one of the following acts:

a) Having been disciplined by dismissal for whistleblowers holding leadership or management positions or warning for whistleblowers who do not hold leadership or management positions but re-offend;

b) Abusing the right to denounce to propagate against the State, infringing upon the interests of the State; causing public security and order disturbances;

c) Taking advantage of denunciations to distort the truth, slander, fabricate denunciations, attack, divide factions, cause internal disunity, repeatedly denounce with bad intentions.

Thus, from July 1, 2026, civil servants and public employees who repeatedly denounce bad intentions will be disciplined and forced to resign.

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