Part 3: "Solving the problem" of surplus staff
There are more than 1,000 cadres, civil servants and public employees in Nghe An (not including non-professional cadres) who will be redundant when administrative units are reorganized in the period 2023 - 2025. How to ensure a satisfactory solution to the "problem" of redundant personnel? The key is to do a good job of ideological work right from the start.
There are more than 1,000 cadres, civil servants and public employees in Nghe An (not including non-professional cadres) who will be redundant when administrative units are reorganized in the period 2023 - 2025. How to ensure a satisfactory solution to the "problem" of redundant personnel? The key is to do a good job of ideological work right from the start.
PV Group • August 30, 2024
With a large number of redundant cadres and civil servants in localities, how can we arrange the right people, the right positions, suitable for their capacity and expertise, and streamline and streamline them but still be effective? This is a difficult problem for organizers and mass mobilization workers.
It is expected that when Cua Lo town is merged into Vinh city, there will be a surplus of 207 cadres, civil servants and public employees. At the commune level in Nghe An, when the arrangement is implemented, it is expected that there will be a surplus of 799 people (374 cadres, 425 civil servants).
In Dien Chau district, according to the plan to rearrange administrative units in the period of 2023 - 2025 from 10 communes to 5 communes, the locality will have a surplus of 98 commune-level cadres and civil servants. Along with the process of propagating the merger plan, the district focused on disseminating and propagating the plan to arrange cadres and civil servants and policies to resolve the surplus. Many cadres and civil servants, especially key leaders, have promoted the spirit of setting an example in implementing the arrangement and reorganization plan, so the majority of cadres, civil servants, and related non-professional workers understand, agree with, and support the policy.
Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee, Chairwoman of the People's Committee of Dien Thanh Commune, Ms. Ho Thi Tam is one of them. When merging the entire natural area and population of Dien Thanh Commune and Dien Chau Town to establish a new administrative unit named Dien Thanh Town, there will be a surplus of 20 people (8 cadres, 12 civil servants). In the key position, with a firm grasp of the policies and significance of the administrative unit merger, Ms. Ho Thi Tam pioneered in registering to retire 3 years ahead of schedule to create conditions for the younger generation to contribute.
Comrade Ngo Sy Thanh - Member of the Standing Committee, Head of the Mass Mobilization Committee of Dien Chau District Party Committee affirmed: From the propaganda work, fully implementing the policy of rearranging administrative units, the team of cadres and civil servants in the units implementing the merger in the period of 2023 - 2025 highly agreed. Many cadres are very comfortable and happy, and have committed to being ready to retire according to the surplus regime after the rearrangement of administrative units, even though they are still many years away from the retirement age according to regulations.
In all districts and communes, this stage has been arranged to propagate, carry out ideological work, and mobilize those who meet the standards and conditions within the framework to implement the regime to retire early; at the same time, seriously evaluate and classify cadres and civil servants, as a basis for removing from the apparatus those who are not qualified and have a low sense of responsibility. At the same time, priority is given to mobilizing and rotating cadres and civil servants from merged units to units lacking staff and recruiting them as district-level civil servants, transferring them to public employees, etc.
The current concern is that most officials and civil servants have standardized their qualifications. Older people are often more mature and dedicated, while younger people are more resilient, creative and dynamic. This requires localities to research and consider carefully, ensuring a systematic, scientific and objective approach, and assigning the right person to the right job.
Drawing on experience in the arrangement of administrative units in the 2019-2021 period, when entering the implementation period of 2023-2025, the Standing Committee of Nghe An Provincial Party Committee requested the Standing Committees of district, city and town Party Committees to temporarily suspend the recruitment and acceptance of civil servants and public employees. Temporarily suspend the addition of Party committees and the appointment of leaders and managers at the district and commune levels in the entire province until the Provincial Master Plan on the arrangement of administrative units at the district and commune levels in the 2023-2025 period is approved by competent authorities.
The Provincial Steering Committee for Administrative Unit Arrangement also directed that, in addition to preparing the overall plan for administrative unit arrangement, localities must review, calculate, prepare a plan for arrangement and reasonable personnel allocation when the overall plan is approved by the National Assembly Standing Committee. This is a very new point in the direction of Nghe An province compared to the arrangement in the period 2019 - 2021.
More than 1,000 district and commune-level cadres, civil servants and public employees will be reduced in the following forms: retirement at the right age; retirement according to Decree 26/2015/ND-CP, Decree 29/2023/ND-CP; transfer to other jobs or other units with insufficient staff. Policies for redundant cadres are applied according to Resolution 35 of the National Assembly Standing Committee, two Government decrees: Decree 29 on streamlining staff, Decree 33 on commune-level cadres and civil servants.
The Department of Home Affairs has consulted on the draft Resolution to submit to the Provincial People's Committee at the regular meeting in July 2024 and will submit to the Provincial People's Council to issue the Resolution as soon as possible. Recently, on August 28, 2024, the Standing Committee of Nghe An Provincial Party Committee approved the policy to issue a support policy for redundant cadres, civil servants and public employees due to administrative unit rearrangement. After the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee approved the policy, the Provincial People's Committee will submit to the Provincial People's Council for consideration and issuance of the Resolution. It is expected that the total cost of implementing this policy is 76 billion VND.
The above policies have outstanding concerns, creating peace of mind and comfortable thinking for cadres and civil servants in the assigned units, whether they continue to work or retire.
At the 21st session of the 18th Provincial People's Council, held in July 2024, the Provincial People's Council chose to question and answer questions on the content of arranging redundant staff after merging administrative units. 20 delegates of the Provincial People's Council asked questions and debated the key content, reflecting the concerns and worries of voters, delegates and public opinion.
Director of Nghe An Department of Home Affairs Nguyen Viet Hung answered questions and clarified the solution for redundant cadres, civil servants, and non-professional workers. Accordingly, for 207 redundant cadres, civil servants, and public employees after the merger of Cua Lo town into Vinh city, a plan and roadmap for reduction have been developed, specifically: 44 people in 2025, 39 people in 2026, 42 people in 2027, 41 people in 2028 and 2029 each year. For 799 redundant commune-level cadres and civil servants after the rearrangement, the plan and roadmap for reduction are specifically: 297 people will be reduced in 2025, 129 people in 2026, 111 people in 2027, 119 people in 2028, and 143 people in 2029.
Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the People's Council of Nghe An province Thai Thanh Quy requested the Provincial People's Committee to promptly complete the draft Resolution on support policies for cadres, civil servants, public employees, workers, part-time workers and other redundant subjects due to the arrangement of administrative units at district and commune levels in Nghe An province to submit to the Provincial People's Council, in the spirit of transparency, publicity, clarity in accordance with Central regulations, and at the same time in accordance with the province's resource conditions.
The supervision of the elected body, the Provincial People's Council, has contributed to the publicity and transparency of programs, plans, mechanisms and policies on administrative unit arrangement in general, and policies for redundant cadres, civil servants and part-time workers in particular.
The media agencies in the province and the Electronic Information Pages at all levels have also strengthened the information and propaganda work on the administrative unit arrangement, contributing to creating more trust for cadres, party members and people to support the administrative unit arrangement process. The implementation process has fully promoted democracy, publicity, transparency and enhanced the responsibility and obligations of citizens at the grassroots level.
(To be continued)
