The Law on Cadres and Civil Servants is being amended to implement the Party's policy on organizing a two-level local government model, associated with the requirement to streamline the payroll, restructure and improve the quality of the staff and civil servants.
According to Minister of Home Affairs Pham Thi Thanh Tra, the Draft Law on amending consists of 7 chapters and 52 Articles (a reduction of 35 Articles compared to the current Law) with the following basic contents: Amending regulations to connect commune-level cadres and civil servants with provincial levels, unifying a civil service regime from the central to commune level.
In which, amending and supplementing regulations on connecting commune-level cadres and civil servants with provincial levels, unifying a civil service regime from the Central to the commune level, perfecting regulations to implement the policy of building a unified, interconnected, and synchronous civil service from the Central to the commune level;
Notably, the Draft Law stipulates the transition for commune-level cadres and civil servants elected or recruited before the effective date of this Law, if they meet all standards and conditions, they can be converted into cadres and civil servants according to the provisions of this Law.

The draft Law also amends and supplements regulations on the mechanism for management and use of cadres and civil servants in a transparent and effective manner, in accordance with the requirements of administrative reform. Converting the method of managing cadres and civil servants according to job positions.
Accordingly, it is clearly regulated that the assessment, arrangement and use of cadres and civil servants must be based on the requirements of the job position and the capacity, results and effectiveness of the performance of the tasks of cadres and civil servants;
At the same time, it is proposed to remove the regulation on the promotion exam, instead, there is a mechanism for appointing to the rank corresponding to the requirements of the assigned job position according to capacity and performance results.
At the 44th session of the Standing Committee of the National Assembly, the Chairman of the Legal and Judicial Committee Hoang Thanh Tung said that the Legal and Judicial Committee agreed on the amendment of regulations to connect the commune -level officials and public employees with the provincial level, unifying a public service regime from the central to the commune level and realized that the connection at the present time was enough to be ripe and the right to organize the streamlined model, the streamlining the set of the model, the streamlining of the set of the location of the location, the streamlining the model of the model. grant.
The Committee also basically agreed to continue to maintain the principle of managing cadres and civil servants as a "combined standard of title, job position and staffing quota", while perfecting regulations on job positions and civil servant ranks as a basis for continuing to innovate the management of cadres and civil servants; amending regulations on civil servant assessment to have a screening mechanism, overcoming the "lifetime civil servant regime".
It is expected that the Draft Law on Cadres and Civil Servants (amended) will be submitted to the National Assembly for consideration and approval at the 9th Session (opened on May 5) according to a shortened order and procedure.