Proposal to abolish civil servant ranks and manage by job position

The Ministry of Home Affairs is seeking opinions on the proposal to draft a revised Law on Cadres and Civil Servants.

In the draft submission, the Ministry of Home Affairs said that after 5 years of amendments and supplements, some provisions of the law have revealed certain limitations and need to continue to be improved and must be studied, amended, and supplemented to be consistent and in sync with the new regulations of the Party.

According to the Ministry of Home Affairs, cadres and cadre work are "very important" issues, "deciding everything", "cadres are the root of all work", and are the decisive factor in the success or failure of the revolution.

Currently, the Party and the State are carrying out a revolution in streamlining the apparatus, associated with restructuring and improving the quality of the contingent of cadres, civil servants and public employees with sufficient qualities and capacity to bring the country into a new era, an era of national growth.

Therefore, the requirements and mechanisms for managing and using the staff and civil servants need to be researched and regulated in accordance with current management practices.

In the draft submission, the Ministry of Home Affairs proposed a number of new policies, including innovating the mechanism for managing cadres and civil servants according to job positions.

The goal of this policy is to innovate the mechanism for managing cadres and civil servants from combining title standards, job positions and staffing quotas to a mechanism for managing cadres and civil servants based on job positions.

Take job positions as the basis for recruitment, use, evaluation, planning, training, fostering and implementation of policies and regimes for cadres and civil servants. At the same time, create a competitive mechanism according to job positions based on work results, towards a truly talented civil service.

Regarding implementation solutions, the Ministry of Home Affairs said it will study and amend regulations on job positions in line with the requirements of the industry and field; gradually eliminate regulations on ranks and structure of civil servant ranks; and perfect the management, use and salary payment mechanism for cadres and civil servants according to job positions.

In addition, regulations will be studied and supplemented to allow state agencies to sign labor contracts for some positions of execution and enforcement held by civil servants. This will help create flexibility in the use of human resources, especially for administrative agencies with revenue sources according to regulations.

Therefore, the Ministry of Home Affairs proposes to study and comprehensively amend the articles and clauses in the current law related to job positions on principles of management of cadres and civil servants; the rights of cadres and civil servants regarding salaries and salary-related regimes; regulations on cadres and civil servants at the central, provincial and district levels regarding classification of civil servants and recruitment of civil servants.

At the same time, remove regulations related to civil servant ranks with regulations on changing job positions, training and development according to job positions, regulations on transfer, appointment, rotation, secondment, resignation, dismissal or regulations on civil servant evaluation.

In addition, regulations on management of cadres and civil servants will also be researched and revised in the direction of promoting the assignment and decentralization of cadre work...