The Ministry of Home Affairs received the results of the implementation of internal tasks in the first 6 months of 2025 and the work of reorganizing the apparatus, implementing the 2-level local government organization model of the Department of Home Affairs of Lai Chau province.
Accordingly, the Department of Home Affairs of Lai Chau province has proposed that the Steering Committee for the arrangement of administrative units at all levels and the development of a model of organizing local government at both levels of the Government (Steering Committee) consider increasing the staff framework for the commune level to ensure the implementation of assigned tasks.
According to Mr. Vu Hai Nam - Director of the Department of Organization and Stage (Ministry of Home Affairs), the principle of using the payroll after the arrangement has been clearly stated in Official Dispatches No. 03, 09 and 11 of the Steering Committee.
Official Dispatch No. 03 and Official Dispatch No. 09 clearly determine: The arrangement of commune-level civil servant positions must be within the total assigned positions of the whole province.
In addition, Official Dispatch No. 11 specifically guides the transfer of cadres, civil servants and public employees from the provincial and district levels to the commune level without having to carry out new procedures for receipt.
"From now until the end of 2026, we can proactively use resources in the total assigned payroll to allocate to the new commune, ensuring the implementation of goals and tasks" - Mr. Vu Hai Nam said.
Mr. Nam also informed that through a survey, most communes are using existing staff, but most of them exceed the framework, some places exceed 50%. However, not every locality needs many people. He cited Ngo Quyen ward (Hai Phong city) - where the population and workload are equivalent to a district, the ward chairman said that only 70 people are needed to be able to perform well the task.
If there is a need for adjustment in the implementation process, from the beginning of 2026, the Ministry of Home Affairs will coordinate with the Central Organizing Committee to provide further guidance, as a basis for localities to continue to arrange and assign, both meeting the requirements of the organizational apparatus and ensuring the goal of streamlining the payroll.
Meanwhile, Director of the Department of Civil Servants and Public Employees Nguyen Quang Dung said that many localities such as Da Nang, Lam Dong... are currently lacking professional qualified staff in fields such as accounting, information technology, land administration - construction. The reason is that previously, commune-level cadres mainly took on administrative work and were not properly trained.
He said that the Ministry of Home Affairs proposed that localities apply a number of solutions such as rotating professional staff from provinces and districts to communes for direct support; organizing assessment of the current situation and developing training plans. For specialized fields such as information technology, contracts can be signed to promptly meet job requirements.
The Ministry of Home Affairs is also drafting a Decree to replace Decree 62 on job positions and civil servant staffing, to give localities more initiative in using and managing civil servants in accordance with reality. While waiting for the new regulation, localities still rely on Decree 62 and related documents for implementation.
Minister of Home Affairs Pham Thi Thanh Tra has just signed and issued Official Letter No. 5765/BNV-TCBC to ministries, ministerial-level agencies, agencies under the Government and People's Committees of provinces and centrally run cities, requesting to review, synthesize and report statistical data on administrative organizations, public service units, civil servant and public employee positions after the restructuring of the apparatus and organizing the implementation of local government at 2 levels.
