Speaking at a recent press conference of the Ministry of Home Affairs in the first quarter of 2025, Mr. Nguyen Xuan Tu - Deputy Director of the Department of Civil Servants and Public Employees (Ministry of Home Affairs) - said that the draft Law on Cadres and Public Employees (amended) has 7 chapters, 52 articles, a reduction of 35 articles compared to the current law.
Mr. Nguyen Xuan Tu specifically analyzed the proposed, amended and supplemented contents of this draft law.
First, propose, amend and supplement regulations on interconnecting civil servants and public employees at the commune and provincial levels, unifying a civil service regime from the Central to the commune level.
The completion of this regulation aims to implement the policy of building a unified, interconnected, and synchronous civil service from the Central to the commune level. Transitional regulations for cadres, civil servants and public employees to be elected or recruited before the effective date of the law.
Second is to amend and supplement the mechanism for management and use of cadres, civil servants and public employees in a transparent and effective manner, in line with administrative reform, including 3 main contents related to this issue.
The Deputy Director of the Department of Civil Servants and Public Employees mentioned the conversion of management methods for cadres, civil servants and public employees according to job positions.
Accordingly, clarify regulations on assessment, arrangement and use of cadres, civil servants and public employees, based on job requirements, capacity, and performance results of cadres, civil servants and public employees. Remove the regulation on promotion exams, instead, there is a mechanism for appointing to positions corresponding to assigned job positions, ensuring tasks according to abilities.
Second, innovate civil servant recruitment work in the direction of selecting people to meet job positions immediately. After being recruited, civil servants are appointed and have their salaries considered to the civil servant or public employee rank corresponding to the job position, not performing the probationary regime. Abolish regulations on quality control of civil servant input, unify at the national level, to promote decentralization and delegation of authority.
Third, improve the effectiveness of evaluating, using, and screening civil servants and public employees, in which it is stipulated that the evaluation of civil servants must be based on the results of performing specific tasks and work products according to the job position they are holding.
"These contents will replace general assessment criteria, based on sentiment; at the same time, clearly stipulate the responsibility of leaders in managing and evaluating the use of civil servants and public employees according to job positions" - Mr. Tu emphasized.
Overcoming local dispersation in civil servant management of the political system. Thereby, ensuring connectivity, synchronization, and the organization of the state apparatus is implemented in a streamlined manner.
From there, the management agency tightens discipline and administrative discipline, eliminates the lifelong staffing thinking, concretizes the requirement to streamline the staffing in a practical direction, regulates the screening and elimination of cadres and civil servants who do not complete their tasks.
