Decree 14/2012/ND-CP, issued by the Government on 7 March 2012, amends Article 7 of Decree 204/2004/ND-CP on the salary regime for cadres, civil servants, public employees, and the armed forces, and revises part of Section I of the leadership position-allowance table attached to Decree 204/2004. Its provisions affect public-sector pay structure, specifically the rules for moving up a salary step and the position-allowance coefficients used in computing salary, so they feed pay and, indirectly, pension calculations for affected public-sector staff. Article 1 amends point b, clause 2 of Article 7 of Decree 204/2004. Under the new wording, a cadre, civil servant, or public employee who has received an official retirement notice as required by the State, has completed assigned…