On April 17, the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee approved the Project to arrange, arrange and implement regimes and policies for cadres, civil servants, public employees and workers after streamlining the organizational apparatus in the political system in the City.
The project aims to rearrange and reassign the team of cadres, civil servants, public employees and workers working in administrative agencies, public service units, and socio-political organizations from the City to the commune level.
Thereby, the City will promptly and reasonably resolve the regime and policies for redundant cases due to the process of merging and consolidating the apparatus.
Ho Chi Minh City aims to reduce at least 20% of cadres, civil servants, and public employees receiving salaries from the state budget, while improving the quality of the remaining personnel team.
The project is applied to many groups of subjects, including:
- Cadres, civil servants, and public employees holding leadership and management positions and not holding leadership positions.
- Commune-level cadres, part-time workers at the commune level.
- Cadres who are not old enough to be re-elected or reappointed.
- People working under labor contracts at administrative agencies and public service units before January 15, 2019.
- People working within the staffing quota and receiving salaries from the state budget at associations assigned by the Party and State from the central to local levels in Ho Chi Minh City.
The Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee will develop evaluation criteria to classify and arrange personnel teams into three groups.
Continue working: People who are qualified and suitable for job positions.
Mobilization and retraining: People with suitable abilities for other positions need additional training and fostering.
Streamlining, resignation: Cases of voluntary resignation or forced resignation due to restructuring the apparatus.
For cases of job loss, the City will make a list, estimate funding and submit to competent authorities for approval of support policies according to Decree 178/2024/ND-CP and Decree 67/2025/ND-CP.
Those who are not subject to the above two decrees may be considered for additional support from the City budget.
Not only stopping at streamlining, Ho Chi Minh City also focuses on supporting the reintegration of the labor market for people who quit their jobs.
State-owned enterprises in the city will be encouraged to prioritize recruiting redundant workers with capacity and experience.
Ho Chi Minh City will also connect, introduce jobs in the private sector, and support retraining if necessary to take advantage of trained human resources.
In particular, part-time workers at the commune level who are allowed to quit their jobs will receive additional financial support to stabilize their lives in the transition period.
Regarding the implementation roadmap, in the first quarter of 2025, agencies will review and make a list of people who are not eligible to continue working, and develop a roadmap for policy resolution.
In the second quarter to the fourth quarter of 2025, continue to arrange job positions, determine the number of positions and make a list of surplus. Strive to complete the target of reducing at least 4%/year for civil servants and public employees receiving salaries from the state budget.
From 2026 to 2030: Strive to reduce at least 4% of civil servants and public employees receiving salaries from the state budget each year, ensuring the progress of streamlining the apparatus and effectively using public resources.
In 2025, the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee assigned a total of 19,164 administrative positions and people working with salaries from the state budget, including 13,074 people at agencies and units under the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee; 6,090 people at the People's Committees of districts, towns and Thu Duc City.
