Pay attention to building, developing and improving the quality of civil servants in ethnic minority areas.

Discussing at the Hall on the morning of November 13 about the Draft Law on Civil Servants (amended), National Assembly Delegate Cao Thi Xuan (Thanh Hoa) suggested that the drafting agency should continue to research to perfect the relevant provisions of the draft Law, ensuring consistency with the Party and State's ethnic policies and guidelines, contributing to building, developing and improving the quality of civil servants in ethnic minority areas.

At the discussion session, National Assembly Deputy Cao Thi Xuan agreed on the need to amend the Law on Public Employees. The draft Law on Public Employees (amended) has fully institutionalized the Party's policies on restructuring and improving the quality of the staff and the operational efficiency of public service units; at the same time, overcoming the limitations and inadequacies of the current law.

In addition, the draft Law has met the requirements for innovative thinking in law-making. The Law only stipulates basic, important, principled contents within the authority of the National Assembly ; detailed issues and frequently changing practical issues are assigned to the Government for regulation.

National Assembly Delegate Cao Thi Xuan ( Thanh Hoa ) spoke at the hall on the morning of November 13. Photo: Pham Thang

Commenting on this draft Law, National Assembly Deputy Cao Thi Xuan was interested in the policies on building and developing a team of civil servants stipulated in Article 6 of the draft Law. In particular, Clause 1, Article 6 stipulates: "The State has policies on building and developing a team of civil servants with professional ethics, qualifications and professional capacity appropriate to each sector and field."

Through monitoring the implementation of the National Target Programs on new rural construction, poverty reduction and socio -economic development in ethnic minority and mountainous areas; the results of the thematic supervision of "Implementation of policies and laws on human resource development and use", the thematic supervision of "implementation of policies and laws on innovation of the organizational and management system, improving the quality and efficiency of operations of public service units in the period of 2018 - 2023", National Assembly Deputy Cao Thi Xuan realized that, for mountainous areas, ethnic minority areas, areas with particularly difficult socio-economic conditions, the issue of human resources is always a "problem and difficulty" in implementing policies and laws of the Party and State. In particular, human resources in the fields of health and education are always lacking and weak; human resources in essential and basic public service fields...

According to the delegate, the issue currently being considered is the “general policy” to build and develop the civil servant team. Meanwhile, the regulation in Clause 1, Article 6 only shows the building and development of civil servant teams suitable for “each industry and field” but has not fully institutionalized the “regions, areas, ethnic policies of the Party and State on human issues, specifically the civil servant team”; at the same time, the regulation in Clause 1, Article 6 is also not suitable and compatible with the regulation on the policy of developing public service units in Article 5 of the draft law when focusing on investment resources but lacking human resources.

Scene of the morning meeting on November 13. Photo: Ho Long

Delegate Cao Thi Xuan emphasized: the remaining policies in Article 6 have not yet reflected the issue of building and developing a team of civil servants who are ethnic minorities and civil servants working in ethnic minority areas, mountainous areas, and areas with especially difficult socio-economic conditions.

Accordingly, the delegates requested the drafting agency to continue researching and supplementing assessment content to perfect the relevant provisions of the draft Law, ensuring consistency with the Party and State's ethnic policies and guidelines, contributing to building, developing and improving the quality of civil servants in ethnic minority areas.

Regarding the regulations on the Rights of civil servants to sign contracts to perform professional activities and business activities in Article 13, delegate Cao Thi Xuan said that these are regulations to take advantage of the capacity and professional experience in professional activities of civil servants to contribute to society, especially jobs requiring high expertise in the fields of health and education; at the same time, increase legitimate income for civil servants.

However, compared with the current law, the draft Law has expanded rights, more specifically the rights but "seems" to lack "strictness" in ensuring the principle that "all tasks and responsibilities of a State official must be completed before participating in outside work". In other words, if there is no strict monitoring mechanism, it may lead to the consequence that "the main task becomes secondary", the quality of basic essential public services is not guaranteed...

Accordingly, the delegates suggested that the drafting agency carefully review and supplement regulations to avoid the above risks and, if necessary, assign the Government to provide detailed regulations so that there can be more time to calculate the measures to be built to ensure feasibility, effectiveness and efficiency in managing the civil servant team.

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Commenting on some technical contents, National Assembly Deputy Cao Thi Xuan stated: The last sentence of Clause 4, Article 21 stipulates that civil servants have the right to "... be given priority to be accepted as civil servants when they reach the age of professional activity if needed". It is proposed to adjust it in the direction that those under 18 years old who have signed a labor contract or service contract will be: "given priority to be accepted as civil servants when they reach the age of professional activity if needed". Such a regulation would be more appropriate and scientific, because the age eligible to apply for civil service recruitment is from 18 years old. On the other hand, if the regulation is as in the draft, it could create arbitrariness in implementation when there is no common criterion for when the age of professional activity is reached.

In addition, Clause 1, Article 37 stipulates: “The head of a competent agency, organization, or unit may decide to temporarily suspend a civil servant from work in case the civil servant is found to have signs of violations in performing his or her duties...”. The use of the phrase “may” is discretionary, not mandatory, and inappropriate in the legal document, so the delegate proposed to remove this phrase.

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