At the appraisal session, Mr. Nguyen Quang Dung - Director of the Department of Civil Servants and Public Employees (Ministry of Home Affairs) briefly presented the basic contents and new points of the draft Law on Cadres and Public Employees (amended).
Accordingly, the draft law amends regulations such as: amending regulations related to cadres and civil servants when organizing local government at 2 levels (provincial and commune levels).
In particular, the Draft Law agreed to manage the contingent of cadres and civil servants from the central to the commune level, regardless of the commune -level civil servants from the provincial civil servants, ensuring the Party's guidelines on interconnection in cadre work; Supplementing the provisions of the transition terms to ensure that the commune -level officials and public employees (currently) are kept the number of payrolls until the review, streamlining, restructuring and arranging according to the job position of the local government; Save the current salary until the arrangement of new jobs as prescribed by the Government.
In addition, the draft Law also amends regulations related to the recruitment, use and management of cadres and civil servants according to job positions to streamline the payroll, restructure and improve the quality of cadres and civil servants during and after the process of streamlining the apparatus of the political system; perfect regulations on attracting and promoting talented people to work in state agencies.
Commenting on the draft Law, Mr. Tran Anh Tuan - former Deputy Minister of Home Affairs - emphasized that the Government needs to unify job position management throughout the system, while the management of payroll can be decentralized to agencies and organizations in accordance with reality.
In addition, it is necessary to clearly distinguish between cadre management and civil servant management. The construction of job positions is only suitable for civil servants - those who work according to ranks and professional positions.
For cadres, especially positions decided by elections (such as National Assembly deputies, People's Councils, Central Committee members), the arrangement of work is based on trust, capacity and organization assignment. Therefore, the concept of job position for cadres should not be applied, but should comply with the Election Law, the Party Charter and related regulations.
Regarding the proposal to remove civil servant ranks, Mr. Tran Anh Tuan said that this needs to be carefully considered. If the rank is abolished, there needs to be a replacement title accordingly, because the rank not only reflects the rank in the administrative system but also serves as a basis for demonstrating the professional qualifications and skills of civil servants.
Concluding the appraisal session, Deputy Minister of Justice Dang Hoang Oanh agreed on a comprehensive amendment to the draft Law to institutionalize the entire Party's guidelines and policies on cadre organization.
The Deputy Minister of Justice suggested that the drafting unit should complete the legal framework on job positions, including job description, capacity standards, and recruitment, appointment, and evaluation mechanisms based on job positions. This is an urgent requirement to build a team of professional, capable and responsible cadres and civil servants.
Current legal documents need to be reviewed, amended and supplemented to fully institutionalize the Party's policies and guidelines on personnel and civil service. There needs to be flexibility in regulations to promptly meet the requirements of the Party and reality.
