On behalf of the Politburo, Politburo Member, Standing Secretary of the Secretariat Tran Cam Tu signed and issued Conclusion 40 of the Politburo on supplementing and amending regulations on managing the payroll of the political system, assigning payroll of the political system in 2026 and orientations for the period 2027 - 2031.
Regarding the orientation of staffing for the period 2027 - 2031, the conclusion clearly states that it is necessary to continue to implement staff streamlining of the political system (about 5-10%) based on the plan, roadmap, and commitments of responsibility of each agency, unit, organization, and locality in implementing decentralization, delegation of power, decentralization of authority, application of science and technology, digital transformation, application of new management and administration methods, administrative procedure reform, streamlining work processes, reducing intermediaries in operations, streamlining internal organizations, arranging public non-business units, reducing the number of leaders of agencies, units, and organizations as a basis for building a roadmap for staff reduction, restructuring, improving the quality and transformation of cadres, civil servants, and public employees, especially commune, ward, and special zone cadres, and improving labor productivity, reducing working hours, and reforming public sector salary policies.
The Politburo requests to review, amend, supplement and newly build staff quotas, build a national database, specialized and interconnected data from the Central to provincial and commune levels to ensure "correct, sufficient, clean, living, unified, interconnected, shared", including a national database on staff, cadres, civil servants, public employees and employees receiving salaries from career revenue in public non-business units.
The Politburo requests to promote decentralization of staff management to agencies assigned authority to manage staff, provincial and city Party committees, and Party committees directly under the Central Government. Conduct periodic annual reviews to promptly update and adjust to suit the actual situation; recover and transfer staff synchronously with the roadmap for decentralization, delegation of power, digital transformation, administrative reform and transfer of staff from inefficient places to places of shortage and overload.
The Politburo's conclusion also clearly states the application of data-based management methods, quantifying work to determine actual staffing needs.
Switching from managing the number of staff to managing the quality and effectiveness of public service performance, periodically evaluating cadres using quantified indicators.
Remove from the system those who are not qualified and do not complete their tasks to recruit civil servants and public employees with sufficient qualifications and capacity into the apparatus.
