Streamlining the payroll of 82.295 civil servants and public employees

On September 16.9, Permanent Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Hoa Binh had a working session with Ministry of Home Affairs.

At the meeting, Deputy Minister of Home Affairs Truong Hai Long said that in recent times, the Ministry of Home Affairs has proactively and actively advised the Government to implement salary policy reform according to a reasonable, step-by-step, cautious, certain, feasible and effective roadmap, which has received high consensus and agreement from cadres, civil servants, public employees, armed forces and society.

In the field of organizational structure and staffing, the Ministry of Home Affairs has focused on advising on the construction of the structure of the 15th Government to submit to the National Assembly for approval in the direction of continuing to innovate the organization and operation of the Government and local governments to be streamlined and operate effectively and efficiently.

The results of the 2021-2023 period have reduced 17 general departments and organizations equivalent to general departments (expected to continue to reduce 1 general department and 5 departments/departments under general departments), reduced 10 departments under general departments and ministries, reduced 145 departments/divisions under general departments and ministries; reduced 13 departments and equivalents, reduced 2.159 departments and equivalents under provincial and district People's Committees; reduced 7.469 public service units, reaching 13,5% compared to 2016, exceeding the target assigned by the Central Government.

The Ministry of Home Affairs advises on the implementation of staff management and staff streamlining in accordance with the direction of the Politburo and the Government. From 2016 to 2023, 82.295 staff have been streamlined (of which 7.435 are civil servants and 74.860 are public employees).

The streamlining of staff has exceeded the target assigned by the Politburo, with civil servants reduced by 10,01% and officials receiving salaries from the state budget reduced by 11,67%, and the number of non-professional workers, villages, and residential groups reduced by 46,64% compared to 2015.

According to Deputy Minister Truong Hai Long, the Ministry of Home Affairs thoroughly decentralizes recruitment work; supplements regulations on rank promotion for leading and managing civil servants and changes the method from examination to promotion of civil servants; decentralizes the organization of examinations, rank promotion and promotion to ministries, branches and localities.

At the same time, the Ministry of Home Affairs proactively reviewed and cut down procedures for foreign language certificates, computer science certificates and other unnecessary training certificates in recruitment, promotion and rank upgrading of civil servants and public employees, saving time and social costs, which was highly appreciated by public opinion.

Also at the meeting, Minister of Home Affairs Pham Thi Thanh Tra emphasized a number of key tasks of the Ministry and the sector in the coming time such as: Building and perfecting institutions, being determined to take the lead in administrative reform, reorganizing the apparatus, reorganizing administrative organizations of provincial-level professional agencies, focusing on basically completing the arrangement and resolving issues arising in the arrangement of administrative units at district and commune levels.