The Ministry of Justice is reviewing the draft Decree regulating civil servant job positions. This is a step to concretize new regulations of the Law on Cadres and Civil Servants 2025 on recruitment, use and management of civil servants according to job positions.
The draft Decree was developed by the Ministry of Home Affairs in the spirit of the Central resolutions on perfecting the job position system, as a basis for innovating recruitment, assessment and salary payment according to the provisions of the new Law.
According to the draft, the Government will issue a list of job positions, along with a job description model and a capacity framework for each job group. This is a big change compared to before, when ministries and branches had to issue circulars to guide specialized job positions.
The unified list includes 6 groups: Leadership position, professional expertise, general service, support - service, position under the Provincial People's Council and position of commune-level civil servant.
Based on this list, each agency will determine a specific position suitable for its functions, tasks and workload, thereby developing a description, capacity framework and corresponding payroll. The new regulation helps reduce overlap, ensuring that positions are classified more clearly and closer to reality when units have switched to the 2-level local government model from 2025.
The draft clearly stipulates the arrangement of civil servants according to job positions - a new requirement of the Law on Cadres and Civil Servants 2025. Civil servants are arranged in any position and will be ranked according to that position; if appointed as leaders, managers or arranged for a new position with a lower rank, they will be kept in the current rank.
The draft also clearly stipulates the ratio of civil servants assigned to each group of positions.
According to the draft, ministries, branches and localities must complete and re-approve all job positions before December 31, 2026 and complete the arrangement and arrangement of corresponding positions before July 1, 2027.
In case civil servants do not meet the position requirements, the agency can temporarily arrange a maximum of 24 months to complete the standards; if they continue to do not meet, they may have to change positions or streamline the payroll.
The submission of the Ministry of Home Affairs emphasized: The job position system is a "prerequisite" for implementing salary reform according to Resolution 27-NQ/TW in 2018, because the new salary table will pay salaries according to positions, not according to ranks as before. Although the draft has not yet caused immediate costs, the system of rankings by location will be the direct basis for new salary payments in the coming time.
