The Ministry of Home Affairs has an official dispatch sent to ministries, ministerial-level agencies and provinces and cities on reviewing the use of staff at civil servant positions.
Accordingly, the Ministry of Home Affairs requests units to report on the assignment and management of payroll in 2025 and 2026 according to Party regulations and State laws, and the arrangement of public employees to perform civil servant positions in administrative organizations under their management.
At the same time, ministries and provinces also reported on the arrangement of people to work in civil servant positions in administrative organizations operating under the special financial and income management mechanism that was previously not assigned civil servant payroll by competent authorities.
This report is requested to be sent to the Ministry of Home Affairs before August 25 for review, synthesis, and report to the Standing Committee of the Government Party Committee for reporting to the Politburo for consideration and decision.
This task is implemented by the Ministry of Home Affairs based on Conclusion No. 40-KL/TW, Conclusion No. 01-KL/BCĐ, Document No. 64-CV/BTCTW, based on the authority to manage staff according to Regulation No. 183-QD/TW.
Previously, Conclusion No. 40-KL/TW of the Politburo on supplementing and amending Regulations on personnel management of the political system; assigning personnel of the political system in 2026 and orientations for the 2027-2031 period stated: Assigning the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee, City Party Committee, Party Committee directly under the Central Government; collective leadership of departments, agencies, units at the Central level, Standing Committees of agencies assigned to manage personnel; Standing Committee of the Party Committee of Ministries, ministerial-level agencies to lead and direct the assignment and management of personnel in 2026 in accordance with the Party's regulations and the State's laws.
At the same time, units have plans to arrange and streamline ranks to ensure a sufficient number of civil servants to perform the tasks of agencies and units, not to let public employees perform the job positions of civil servants, proactively review and adjust the structure and quantity to suit reality, meet the requirements of assigned tasks, and report to competent authorities for consideration and decision, especially agencies, units, and localities lacking professional job positions that need to be supplemented in a timely manner.
Dr. Nguyen Tien Dinh - former Deputy Minister of Home Affairs - said that the study of paying salaries to cadres, civil servants, and public employees according to job positions is not a new issue but has been discussed for many years.
Mr. Dinh also emphasized that paying salaries according to job positions and titles is a scientific approach, the whole world is doing it, but the most important thing is the implementation method. Accurate job position determination will be the basis for standard staffing.
That is, based on the job position, functional agencies can determine how many focal points are needed in an agency, how many staff are needed for each focal point, how many leaders, how many specialists... At the same time, each job position, job title standards need to be calculated and completed. On that basis, to determine the salary level for each position, each job.
Identifying job positions is very urgent. Only when done first can other things be implemented, including streamlining staff, rearranging the apparatus as well as improving the quality of the contingent of cadres, civil servants, and public employees" - Dr. Nguyen Tien Dinh said.
