The qualifications of grassroots officials and civil servants must be commensurate.

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Explaining the proposed regulation, the Ministry of Home Affairs - the agency in charge of drafting the draft Law, said that the current stipulates a separate management mechanism for cadres and civil servants from the district level and above and cadres and civil servants at the commune level, in accordance with the characteristics of each group of subjects. Although the Law on Cadres and Civil Servants and detailed regulations and implementation guidance documents have provisions on the connection between cadres and civil servants at the commune level and cadres and civil servants from the district level and above, many administrative procedures still arise during implementation.

In addition, the Ministry of Home Affairs also believes that implementing the Party's policy on organizing local governments at two levels (provincial and grassroots levels, not district level - PV) and focusing on building and improving the quality of performing tasks of grassroots cadres and civil servants, removing regulations on commune-level cadres and civil servants and implementing a unified mechanism for managing cadres and civil servants from the central to grassroots levels is an urgent requirement at present.

The grassroots level is the most important level, so commune-level cadres and civil servants are also the closest to the people. Reality also shows that wherever the grassroots level well resolves the people's petitions and concerns, the local security and order situation is ensured, avoiding the emergence of unnecessary "hot spots". However, because people always come to the commune level for everything, the situation of "always being busy" when resolving problems arising from the commune level has caused many places to fall into a state of overload.

In order to fully institutionalize the Party's guiding viewpoints, ensure synchronization, connectivity and meet the practical requirements of personnel work in the new situation; promote decentralization and delegation of power; bind responsibilities and strictly control power, along with amending the concept of cadres and civil servants, the draft Law has removed 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 local levels, without distinguishing between commune-level cadres and civil servants and central and provincial-level cadres and civil servants, ensuring proper implementation of the Party's policy on connectivity in personnel work.

In addition, in order not to affect the normal operations of people and businesses immediately after implementing the two-level local government model, the draft Law supplements transitional provisions to unify the management of the current communal-level cadres and civil servants with the cadres and civil servants in the political system, ensuring continuity in personnel work.

Accordingly, commune-level cadres and civil servants as prescribed by the Law on Cadres and Civil Servants 2008 (amended and supplemented by the Law on Amending and Supplementing a Number of Articles of the Law on Cadres and Civil Servants and the Law on Public Employees 2019) from the effective date of this Law are on the payroll of the province or centrally-run city; are ranked according to the salary scale and grade corresponding to the assigned job position if they meet the standards and conditions required by the job position; and are recruited, employed and managed in accordance with the Government's regulations on recruitment, employment and management of civil servants.

In particular, in order to ensure the quality requirements of civil servants, the draft Law also stipulates that in cases where the qualifications and conditions required by the job position are not met, the competent authority shall consider and decide on streamlining in accordance with the provisions of law at the time of .

Thus, with this new proposed regulation, there is no longer any distinction between commune-level civil servants and provincial and central-level civil servants. This is a great encouragement for grassroots civil servants - those who have long had many concerns about the policy mechanism. However, this requires civil servants to meet the full qualifications, professional expertise, and to be "dedicated and competent" to meet the requirements of work at the grassroots level in the new situation. Because if they do not meet the requirements, civil servants will be streamlined and removed from the apparatus.

To achieve this requirement, it is necessary to soon complete the regulations on job positions, which is a very important basis for screening civil servants. Along with that, it is necessary to consider the plan for public examination and recruitment on the basis of transparent competition. Only then can we select a team of grassroots cadres and civil servants who are strong, close to the people, understand the people and serve the people better.

Song Ha

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