Proposal to maintain the number of commune civil servants until restructuring is completed

The Ministry of Home Affairs has completed the draft of the revised Law on Cadres and Civil Servants - Illustrative photo

According to the Ministry of Home Affairs, as of December 31, 2024, the number of commune-level cadres and civil servants is over 212,600 people, of which 92.4% have graduated from university or higher and 7.6% have graduated from college or lower.

Accordingly, the number of unqualified commune-level officials and civil servants accounts for only a small percentage and will be resolved according to the policy of ensuring legitimate interests as prescribed by the Government .

Recently, the Ministry of Home Affairs has completed the draft of the revised Law on Cadres and Civil Servants. Of note is the revision of regulations related to cadres and civil servants when organizing local governments at two levels (provincial and communal levels).

To conform to the organization of two-level local government, the draft Law has revised the concept of cadres and civil servants, in which it stipulates cadres and civil servants at the central, provincial and communal levels (removing the district level); at the same time, it removes a chapter on commune-level cadres and civil servants in the current Law on Cadres and Civil Servants.

Accordingly, the draft Law unifies the management of cadres and civil servants from the central to communal levels, without distinguishing between communal and provincial civil servants, ensuring compliance with the Party's policy on interconnectivity in cadre work.

In addition, the draft Law also reviews the regulations on the authority to manage cadres and civil servants in the draft Law to be consistent with the two-level local government organization model (removing the regulations on the authority of the District People's Committee and the Chairman of the District People's Committee).

In particular, the draft Law supplements transitional provisions to ensure that commune-level officials and civil servants (currently) retain the same number of positions until the review, streamlining, restructuring and arrangement of jobs by local authorities are completed; their current salary is retained until new jobs are arranged according to Government regulations; and continuity is ensured, without affecting the normal operations of people and businesses when implementing the 2-level local government model.

Specifically, Article 53 of the draft Law stipulates: From the effective date of this Law, commune-level cadres and civil servants as prescribed by the 2008 Law on Cadres and Civil Servants (amended and supplemented by the Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Cadres and Civil Servants and the Law on Public Employees in 2019) shall retain the same number of staff until the review, streamlining, restructuring and arrangement according to job positions of local authorities are completed; and their current salary shall be retained until new jobs are arranged according to Government regulations.

Within 5 years, provinces and centrally-run cities must arrange, streamline and restructure their staff according to the approved job position plan.

The Government shall develop a roadmap and promulgate regulations for the gradual conversion of management according to job positions within 05 years from the effective date of this Law.

Within 05 years, the management of staff, recruitment, management and use of civil servants will continue to be implemented according to Government regulations.

Thu Giang

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