Ministry of Home Affairs proposes not to appoint new "rank" positions

Ministry of Home Affairs. Illustration photo

According to the Ministry of Home Affairs, currently, the Law on Cadres and Civil Servants and its implementing documents do not have regulations on the appointment of "rank" titles in administrative agencies. However, in some ministries, branches and central agencies, due to the nature of their work and to ensure the regime and policies for cadres and civil servants when they are transferred to central agencies, they have appointed "rank" titles.

In Resolution 18 of the 12th Central Committee, Session 6, "Some issues of innovation and reorganization of the political system to be streamlined and operate effectively and efficiently", there is a requirement: "Specify standards, conditions, and policies to reduce the scope and subjects of appointment at the rank level".

The Ministry of Home Affairs said that, in carrying out its assigned tasks, the Central Organizing Committee is presiding over and coordinating with relevant agencies to research and develop a project "Developing standards, regimes and policies for the team of experts; standards and regimes for assistants and secretaries of Politburo members, Secretariat and leaders of the Party and State" to overcome the appointment of "official" titles.”in agencies, organizations, units.

"To strictly implement the Party's regulations and the law on personnel work, during the time when there are no new regulations from the Politburo and the Government on the appointment of 'rank' titles, we request that ministries, ministerial-level agencies, agencies under the Government, People's Committees of provinces and centrally-run cities and relevant agencies not make new appointments to 'rank' titles for cadres, civil servants and public employees," the official dispatch of the Ministry of Home Affairs stated.

Minister of Home Affairs Le Vinh Tan explained about the title "rank" at the 6th session of the 14th National Assembly.

At the National Assembly's question-and-answer session at the end of October, the issue of appointing titles and positions was also questioned by some National Assembly members to Minister of Home Affairs Le Vinh Tan. This is not a new story; in the previous term, many National Assembly members questioned the then Minister of Home Affairs, Mr. Nguyen Thai Binh.

At the national online conference to study and disseminate resolutions of the 12th Central Committee's 6th session at the end of November 2017, Head of the Central Organizing Committee Pham Minh ChinhIt is said that there are departments with both department heads and deputy department heads, and there are departments with 19 deputy department heads.