This information was given by Mr. Nguyen Tan Phong - Deputy Director of the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Home Affairs - at a meeting on the city's socio-economic situation on the morning of October 31.
According to the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Home Affairs, the whole city currently has 7,533 civil servants working in professional departments and equivalents of 168 communes, wards and special zones, while the number of civil servants according to job positions is only 7,415 people.
Going deeper into the structure, the city has a surplus of 1,065 civil servants in non-professional positions such as documentation, administrative procedure control, and ethnic work, but lacks 965 professional civil servants in important fields that require high technical expertise such as healthcare, information technology, land, construction and finance.
Mr. Phong said that up to now, Ho Chi Minh City has basically completed the consolidation of the leadership of the People's Council, People's Committee and Military Command in 168 communes, wards and special zones. However, Vinh Hoi ward and Con Dao special zone still have a shortcomings in the position of Vice Chairman of the People's Committee.
At the professional department level under the People's Committee at the commune level, there are still 60 leadership positions lacking, including 22 department heads and 38 deputy department heads. On the contrary, 11 commune-level People's Committees have arranged the number of deputy heads exceeding the quota according to the provisions of Decree 150/2025 of the Government.
To solve this paradox, the Department of Home Affairs has advised the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee to develop a Project to review, rearrange and reassign commune-level cadres and civil servants, in which the current situation of surplus - shortage is clearly analyzed, the causes are determined and 2 principles and 5 groups of solutions are proposed for overcoming.
Solutions include: rotation within the agency; transfer between communes, wards or between the Party and government sectors; transfer from the department level to the commune level; recruitment from part-time workers to civil servants; signing labor contracts in some suitable positions.
"This project is waiting to be submitted to the Standing Committee of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee for consideration and comments" - Mr. Nguyen Tan Phong said.
The Deputy Director of the Department of Home Affairs also added that recruiting new civil servants is currently very difficult, because the whole city has about 2,000 surplus positions for cadres and civil servants who have not been arranged for work.
Meanwhile, as of October 1, the Department of Home Affairs has advised on resolving the regime for 6,332 cases of early retirement or termination of employment according to Decree 178/2024 and Decree 67/2025, with a total payment cost of more than VND 6,094 billion.
To strengthen the quality of the team after the restructuring of the apparatus, the Department of Home Affairs has also coordinated with departments and branches to organize 13 training conferences for more than 6,000 cadres, civil servants and public employees at the commune, ward and special zone levels.
Faced with the shortage of deeply qualified staff, in recent times, Ho Chi Minh City has had to proactively implement a number of temporary solutions.
The Department of Finance, the Department of Agriculture and Environment and the Department of Construction have assigned civil servants and public employees to support 38 local groups of the City Public Administration Center, guiding the reception and processing of administrative procedure records for people and businesses.
In addition, the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Construction dispatched nearly 600 civil servants from the Inspection - Legal Affairs Department to 168 communes, wards and special zones to strengthen human resources for construction order management.
