In Directive 08/CT-TTg dated March 17, 2026 of the Prime Minister, the Provincial People's Committee is responsible for reviewing and overall evaluating the team of commune-level cadres and civil servants, on that basis, implementing the arrangement and rearrangement of personnel in accordance with the requirements of the organizational structure in the new period.
Based on the review results, localities must rearrange and rearrange the contingent of cadres and civil servants to ensure they are suitable for their job positions, functions, and assigned tasks. This task will be completed in April 2026.
The Ministry of Home Affairs has advised the Government on continuing to build and complete the organizational structure of the political system in the coming time; reviewing the current status of staff, the number of cadres, civil servants, and public employees to propose staff for the period 2026-2031.
After the 2026-2031 payroll period is approved by competent authorities, ministries, branches, and localities continue to base on the criteria to proactively arrange and assign payroll to each agency, organization, and unit under their management to be appropriate, ensuring that it does not increase the number of payrolls assigned by competent authorities in the 2026-2031 period.
These criteria include: Functions, tasks; job positions and workload of each job position; level of modernization of equipment, working facilities and information technology application; actual use of assigned staff; population size, natural area, number of commune-level administrative units and characteristics of political security, order, and social safety.
Regarding staffing, in a recent working session with the Ministry of Home Affairs, Secretary of the Party Central Committee, Deputy Prime Minister Pham Thi Thanh Tra continued to request a comprehensive review, harmonization, and reasonable allocation between localities, avoiding the situation of surplus in some places and shortage in others, ensuring compliance with norms and task requirements.
According to the Deputy Prime Minister, currently the Central Government has only temporarily assigned staff to localities. After the Politburo has an official opinion, localities will be assigned a staff framework to proactively allocate according to the actual situation.
On that basis, localities need to develop personnel arrangement plans suitable to the scale and characteristics of each administrative unit. The Department of Home Affairs must proactively advise, based on the classification of administrative units to determine a reasonable number of staff, ensuring effective operation of the apparatus.
Localities continue to review the contingent of officials, especially at the commune level, to have appropriate arrangement plans. At the same time, localities need to boldly mobilize and arrange young officials and promising officials from the provincial level to the grassroots level to strengthen the capacity of the commune-level government.
Some civil servants may also be assigned to work at the commune level in areas lacking human resources such as information technology, land or justice.
Regarding the transfer of non-business payroll to civil servant payroll in some state administrative agencies and organizations of ministries, branches, and localities and assigning civil servant payroll to some state administrative agencies and organizations with special financial mechanisms that have not been assigned civil servant payroll, the Ministry of Home Affairs has summarized and reported to the Government Party Committee to report to the Politburo and the Central Steering Committee for payroll management when proposing payroll for the 2022-2026 period.
