11 acts of wastefulness in the organizational structure in the state sector

Legal Consulting Department of Lao Dong Newspaper answers:

Clause 2, Article 4, Decree 266/2026/ND-CP detailing and guiding the implementation of a number of articles of the Law on Saving and Combating Wastefulness (effective from July 1, 2026) stipulates acts causing waste in the organizational structure and management and use of labor in the state sector, including:

a) Establishing and reorganizing agencies, organizations, and units that do not ensure the conditions, criteria, order, procedures, and authority according to the provisions of law, causing waste;

b) Arrange the number of deputy heads of agencies, organizations, units, deputy heads of departments under agencies, organizations, units exceeding the prescribed level, except in cases where the number of deputy heads is allowed to be higher according to the provisions of law;

c) Assigning staff positions not in accordance with legal regulations on the basis for determining civil servant staff positions, causing waste;

d) Recruiting civil servants, receiving them into civil servant positions not within their authority, not based on the proportion of civil servants to be arranged according to job positions, staffing quotas and requirements of the job position to be recruited, causing waste;

e) Signing contracts to perform tasks of civil servants not in accordance with authority, standards, conditions, type of contract and contract signing time as prescribed, causing waste;

e) Recruiting public employees not in accordance with authority, not based on actual needs, job positions, salary funds and other legal revenue sources of public non-business units, causing waste;

g) Signing work contracts with public employees that are not in accordance with the provisions of law, causing waste;

h) Signing labor contracts, service contracts that are not consistent with the nature, requirements of tasks, financial resources and human resource needs of public non-business units as prescribed, causing waste;

i) Applying policies to select, attract, and value talented people to work in agencies, organizations, and units under management not in accordance with the law, causing waste;

k) Transferring, rotating, and assigning civil servants not based on the capacity of the civil servant, the needs of agencies, organizations, and units, leading to civil servants being transferred or assigned not being arranged or used, or civil servants being transferred not achieving the goals of training, fostering, and training cadres according to task requirements or according to the requirements of planned titles, causing waste;

l) Training and fostering not based on job positions associated with the use and management of civil servants in accordance with training and fostering plans and the needs of building and developing human resources, causing waste.

Thus, from July 1, 2026, the above acts are identified as causing waste in the organizational structure and management and use of labor in the state sector.