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Work pressure, combined with inadequate salary and benefits, has caused thousands of officials and civil servants to leave the public sector and seek jobs outside.
More than 9 thousand officials quit in 3 years
The above figures were reported by the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee at the monitoring session on the implementation of policies and laws on the development and use of human resources to meet the requirements of socio-economic development, especially high-quality human resources in the city in the period of 2021 - 2024 of the Ho Chi Minh City National Assembly Delegation, on March 14.
According to the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee, in 3 years (2020 - 2023), the city had 9,470 cadres, civil servants and public employees quit their jobs. Of these, there were 855 cadres, civil servants and 8,615 public employees.
Of the total number of employees who resigned, 3,626 were in the education and training sector (42.09%); 3,708 were in the health sector (43.04%); and the remaining 1,281 were in other career sectors (14.87%).
In particular, the rate of university graduates quitting their jobs is the highest, at 77.07%.
According to the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee, officials leave the public sector because salary and benefit policies are not really satisfactory, do not meet living conditions, and are not strong enough to motivate officials, civil servants, and public employees to work with peace of mind and dedication.
Meanwhile, agencies, organizations and enterprises outside the public sector are offering very attractive salary and benefit policies and thus competing to attract highly qualified human resources from the public sector.
“With the current income, workload, and responsibilities, civil servants and public employees are willing to quit their jobs to move to the private sector with attractive income and higher development opportunities,” the report said.
Besides, work pressure is also one of the reasons leading to a large number of public sector employees quitting their jobs.
Specifically, Ho Chi Minh City is the locality with the highest population density in the country. While a district in the whole country has an average of 137,000 people, this number in Ho Chi Minh City is 441,000 people.
With this density, under normal conditions, a city employee must serve 3.2 times more people than the whole country.
On the other hand, the fact that individuals and organizations that have committed violations related to public service performance have been strictly handled in recent times has made many cadres, civil servants, and public employees afraid of making mistakes and being held accountable.
Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee believes that a number of cadres, civil servants and public employees, especially in key areas (healthcare, education, social protection, etc.) and at the grassroots level, have to work continuously for more than 8 hours a day, even working during holidays and vacations. This leads to very limited time for family, causing psychological inhibition, easily leading to the decision to quit their jobs.
Retain resources with specific policies
According to some National Assembly Deputies of Ho Chi Minh City, in order to retain high-quality human resources in the public sector, in addition to solutions on salary reform and creating promotion opportunities, building a working environment is also one of the important solutions that need special attention.
Many delegates said that, with the characteristics of Ho Chi Minh City, in addition to the policy of training high-quality human resources locally, it is also necessary to attract resources from other places to contribute to the city's development, and have policies to keep them in the city.
According to delegate Nguyen Thien Nhan (former Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee), for the past 20 years, if Ho Chi Minh City had no immigrants, the labor force would only shrink, not increase.
He said that the city's problems are low natural birth rate, rapid population aging, insufficient local renewable resources, and dependence on immigrants. Therefore, in Ho Chi Minh City, the policy of caring for immigrants must become a specific policy.
“Human resource development policy in Ho Chi Minh City must focus on three issues: encouraging more births; taking care of local resources and attracting resources from other places to stay and work in the city,” Mr. Nhan raised the issue.
From 2021 to 2024, on average each year, the Ho Chi Minh City Center for Human Resources Demand Forecasting and Labor Market Information (Falmi) will survey information from more than 144,000 job seekers. Accordingly, when considering the salary criteria when looking for a job, 31.76% of workers want a salary of over 20 million VND per month - the salary that most job seekers want to achieve. Next, the salary chosen by many workers is 5-10 million VND per month, accounting for 25.83%, only 3.64% accept a salary of less than 5 million VND per month.
On the contrary, when surveying more than 285,000 positions that need to be recruited in businesses, only 9.77% of positions have salaries over 20 million VND per month, which is also the position with the lowest recruitment demand in the market. The salary of 5-10 million VND accounts for 44.47% of the total recruitment demand and up to 11.37% of jobs pay salaries under 5 million VND per month.
