President: Managers do not necessarily have to be the best in their field, but must know how to use people.

Leaders and managers do not necessarily have to be the best in terms of expertise, but must be able to use and manage good people.

President Luong Cuong speaks at Group 2 - Ho Chi Minh City National Assembly Delegation - Photo: QP

On the morning of October 22, President Luong Cuong attended and spoke at the meeting of group 2 - Ho Chi Minh City National Assembly Delegation.

Law amendments must meet the requirements of streamlining the apparatus.

Commenting on the draft Law on Civil Servants (amended), the President said that the goal of the amendment must meet the requirements of streamlining the apparatus, effectiveness, efficiency and urban government model.

One of the core issues is to improve the quality of civil servants and create links between the public and private sectors, especially in the fields of health, education and journalism.

"The law must clearly stipulate: what the state must fully subsidize, what the state must partially support, and what can be left to the units to be autonomous," the President emphasized.

Citing his experience while working in the military, the President shared the process of implementing the arrangement of public service units such as hospitals, nursing homes, and military television stations.

He said that it is impossible to apply a completely autonomous market mechanism to units with political tasks.

"When I was still working in the army, when implementing Resolutions 18 and 19 of the Central Committee on the arrangement of the apparatus and public service units, there was also a requirement for hospitals, nursing homes, and military television stations to be autonomous. But I think we have to determine the purpose of existence of these units," he analyzed.

The President said that military hospitals were established to serve national defense missions. In case of an emergency, they can immediately be mobilized into field medical stations.

In peacetime, they use their functions to diagnose and treat patients, maintain their skills, ensure their livelihoods, and serve society. If they were completely autonomous under the market mechanism, they would not be able to fulfill their political duties.

President Luong Cuong - Photo: QP

According to him, the chosen solution is to maintain the model, only utilizing the functions to both fulfill political tasks, serve society and ensure the lives of officials and civil servants. The Politburo has agreed on the use of national defense land for key national projects.

At the end of the discussion, the President said it was necessary to review the standards and methods of training and fostering officials.

"For leaders and managers, it is not necessary to be the best in terms of expertise, but to be able to use and manage people who are better than themselves. As for teachers and scientists, they must be truly specialized. Vocational training must be linked to the needs of the labor market, training what society needs, not what we have," he emphasized.

State the minimum criteria

Delegate Ha Sy Dong - Photo: GIA HAN

Giving comments at the Quang Tri group, National Assembly delegate Ha Sy Dong commented that the Law on Civil Servants (amended) this time has demonstrated the spirit of encouraging innovation and creativity when there is a mechanism to exclude, exempt or reduce responsibility for groups and individuals who dare to think and act for the common good.

According to Mr. Dong, new regulations on evaluating and classifying civil servants in a quantitative and multidimensional manner, linking results to income and personnel; and requiring updating evaluation data to the centralized management system, will help improve publicity, transparency, and encourage innovation.

The draft revised Law on Civil Servants assigns the Government to specify details on civil servant assessment.

But Mr. Dong said that the bill should clearly state mandatory minimum criteria, such as: output results, task completion level, people's satisfaction index, digital transformation level, and financial and human resource management efficiency.

National Assembly Delegate Ha Sy Dong also proposed that the Government soon issue a new salary framework; stipulate the range, resources and implementation roadmap.

According to him, the draft law also needs to specifically stipulate transitional provisions until July 1, 2027 in the direction that "if agencies and units have not completed the job placement and construction of new salary scales, they must report to competent authorities and have a clear roadmap for remediation".

Another notable new content is that the draft law expands the rights of civil servants to sign contracts to carry out professional activities, participate in capital contributions, and manage enterprises if the law on anti-corruption does not prohibit it or specialized laws do not have other provisions.

Commenting that this is a necessary new regulation, Mr. Dong also warned that "conflicts of interest can easily arise."

He proposed to clearly stipulate the mechanism for declaration, approval and list of locations for installation, and at the same time stipulate the responsibility of the head in controlling and handling violations.

"It is necessary to clearly define the criteria, procedures and approval authority for civil servants' extracurricular activities; and have a list of absolutely prohibited positions to prevent conflicts of interest," Mr. Dong suggested.

In addition, Mr. Dong suggested reviewing regulations on prohibited behaviors, especially those related to the right to participate in social and professional activities, to ensure consistency with current laws.

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