Nghe An plans to reduce 47 civil servant positions in 2025

On the morning of November 26, the Legal Committee of the Provincial People's Council reviewed the draft Resolution on assigning civil servant payrolls in state administrative agencies and organizations of Nghe An province in 2025, preparing for the 25th Session of the 18th Provincial People's Council, term 2021 - 2026.

Attending the working session were comrades: Nguyen Nam Dinh - Member of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, Permanent Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Council; Nguyen Nhu Khoi - Member of the Provincial Party Executive Committee, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Council.

Comrade Pham Thanh Chung - Standing Member, Head of the Provincial People's Council's Legal Committee chaired and directed. Also attending were leaders of the Provincial People's Council Committees, the Provincial People's Committee Office and the Standing Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of Nghe An province; and the drafting agencies.

In 2024, the Central Organizing Committee assigned Nghe An province 3,259 positions. Accordingly, the Provincial People's Council approved in Resolution No. 79/2023 the number of positions is 3,259 people (1,702 positions at the provincial level, 1,556 positions at the district level and 1 position in reserve).

As of September 1, 2024, the total number of cadres and civil servants is 3,100 people (1,643 at the provincial level, 1,457 at the district level); 158 positions have not been used (of which the recruitment process is underway to replace 73 retired cadres and civil servants who will be streamlined in 2024 and 85 positions for the 2024 - 2026 period).

In 2025, implementing Plan No. 138-KH/TU dated November 30, 2022 and Notice No. 1586-TB/TU dated November 4, 2024 of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, the Provincial People's Committee submitted to the Provincial People's Council a staffing plan of 3,212 positions, a reduction of 47 positions compared to 2024 (equivalent to a reduction of 1.44%); of which the provincial level has 1,677 positions and the district level has 1,535 positions.

At the review session, the Legal Committee said that the 2025 Staffing Plan was proactively developed by the Department of Home Affairs, solicited comments from agencies, compiled, and reported to the Provincial People's Committee.

The Provincial People's Committee's Executive Committee reported and received comments from the Provincial Party Standing Committee in Notice No. 1586-TB/TU dated November 4, 2024 on the assignment of staffing in 2025. The Central Organizing Committee issued Decision No. 3217-QD/BTCTW dated November 11, 2024 on staffing in Nghe An province in 2025.

The Legal Committee agrees with the draft Resolution on the 2025 staffing plan. The 2025 staffing plan submitted by the Provincial People's Committee to the Provincial People's Council ensures compliance with the number of staffing assigned by the Provincial Party Standing Committee to agencies and units and the total number of civil servant staffing assigned by the Central Organizing Committee.

However, the Legal Department finds that in 2025 there will be no reserve staff, making it difficult to arrange and allocate staff in case of sudden and special needs; some agencies have not yet ensured the 2025 streamlining roadmap set out in Plan No. 138 of the Provincial Party Standing Committee.

Therefore, the Legal Department recommends that the Department of Home Affairs strengthen monitoring and management of the use of payroll to ensure that agencies properly implement the streamlining roadmap at the end of the 2022 - 2026 period; resolutely propose to revoke payroll at agencies and units that have not fully used the assigned payroll for many years (except for cases of payroll streamlining in the next period).

Director of the Department of Home Affairs Nguyen Viet Hung explained and clarified related issues; especially the difficulties in having no more reserve staff; at the same time, he also discussed additional views and solutions to ensure both staffing and streamlining the staffing plan for the entire period.

Concluding this content, Head of the Provincial People's Council's Legal Committee Pham Thanh Chung basically agreed and requested the Department of Home Affairs (drafting agency) and the Provincial People's Committee, after receiving the Committee's review report, to accept the opinions to complete the draft Resolution to be submitted to the Provincial People's Council at the 25th Session.

Also during the working session, the Legal Committee examined the draft Resolution on merging, naming, and renaming hamlets; the draft Resolution stipulating measures to ensure the implementation of grassroots democracy; the draft Resolution approving the results of reviewing legal normative resolutions issued by the Provincial People's Council from September 30, 2024 onwards and abolishing a number of legal normative resolutions issued by the Provincial People's Council (after reviewing)...