The Steering Committee for the arrangement of administrative units at all levels and the development of a model for organizing local government at 2 levels of the Government has just issued Official Letter 09/CV-BCD to the People's Committees of provinces and centrally run cities on the orientation for temporary arrangement of staff when arranging administrative units and organizing local government at 2 levels.
Accordingly, the management and arrangement of staff must ensure compliance with the functions, tasks, powers and organizational structure of agencies, organizations and units; requirements of job positions, administrative reform associated with staff streamlining and restructuring, improving the quality of the team, ensuring streamlining, compactness, efficiency, effectiveness and efficiency.
During the period of arranging and merging administrative units at all levels, implementing the 2-level local government model, in the immediate future, basically keep the number of cadres, civil servants, public employees, and contract workers at the existing agencies, organizations, and units to arrange and assign work at the corresponding agencies, organizations, and units or assign work at the commune level.
After that, streamline the payroll in conjunction with restructuring, improve the quality of the team according to the roadmap, ensure that within 5 years the number of payrolls is basically implemented in accordance with regulations.
In case in the process of arranging administrative units, two -level local government organizations, cadres, civil servants and officials wishing to retire before their age and quit their jobs or fail to meet the task requirements or not qualify for cadres and civil servants (new communes) in accordance with the Law and Public Officials amended (submitted to the 9th Session of the XV National Assembly passing), the local authorities and the local authorities are in accordance with the policy of the Government to raise the quality of the Government to raise the quality of the Government to raise the quality of the Government to raise the Government to improve the quality of the Government to improve the policy of the Government to improve the quality of the Government to improve the policy of the Government to improve the quality of the Government and the Government to improve the quality of the Government and the Government to improve the government and the government of the Government to raise the policy senior cadres, civil servants and public employees.
In case cadres, civil servants and public employees wish to retire immediately before operating the 2-level local government organization model, the local Party Committee and government will consider and decide to let civil servants and public employees retire immediately.
This subject will still receive salary until the time of enjoying policies and regimes according to Decree No. 178/2024/ND-CP (amended and supplemented in Decree No. 67/2025/ND-CP) from July 1, 2025.
Based on the plan to arrange and restructure public service units by sector and field at the new commune level according to the instructions of the Ministry of Industry and field management, localities are responsible for arranging the staffing quota for civil servants receiving salaries from the state budget in the total number of positions assigned by competent authorities.
At the same time, review, restructure and improve the quality of the civil service team, promote autonomy for public service units by industry and field in accordance with the conditions and characteristics of each locality.
According to the Ministry of Home Affairs, currently, the total assigned payroll of 52 provinces and cities to implement the arrangement is 937,935 people, including 37,447 cadres, 130,705 civil servants, 769,783 public employees.
After the arrangement, the maximum number of provincial-level cadres, civil servants and public employees shall not exceed the total number of cadres, civil servants and public employees before the arrangement. Thus, 23 new provinces and cities (there are 11 provinces and cities that have not been reorganized) are assigned no more than 937,935 positions. In 5 years, streamlining the payroll in conjunction with restructuring and improving the quality of the team.
