Nghe An province plans to reduce 47 civil servant positions in 2025.

On the morning of November 26th, the Legal Affairs Committee of the Nghe An Provincial People's Council reviewed the draft Resolution on allocating civil servant positions in state administrative agencies and organizations in Nghe An province for 2025, in preparation 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 Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee, Permanent Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Council; Nguyen Nhu Khoi - Member of the Provincial Party Committee, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Council.

Comrade Pham Thanh Chung - Standing Member and Head of the Legal Affairs Committee of the Provincial People's Council - presided over and conducted the meeting. Also present 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; along with the drafting agencies.

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

As of September 1, 2024, the total number of officials and civil servants is 3,100 (1,643 at the provincial level and 1,457 at the district level); 158 positions remain unused (including 73 positions currently undergoing recruitment procedures to replace officials and civil servants retiring or being laid off in 2024, and 85 positions to be laid off during the 2024-2026 period).

In 2025, in accordance with Plan No. 138-KH/TU dated November 30, 2022 and Notice No. 1586-TB/TU dated November 4, 2024 of the Provincial Party Committee 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 1.44% reduction); of which 1,677 positions are at the provincial level and 1,535 positions are at the district level.

During the review session, the Legal Affairs Committee stated that the 2025 staffing plan had been proactively developed by the Department of Internal Affairs, after soliciting feedback from relevant agencies, and then compiled and reported to the Provincial People's Committee.

The Steering Committee of the Provincial People's Committee reported and received feedback from the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee in Notice No. 1586-TB/TU dated November 4, 2024, regarding the allocation of personnel for 2025. The Central Organization Committee issued Decision No. 3217-QĐ/BTCTW dated November 11, 2024, on the personnel allocation for Nghe An province in 2025.

The Legal Affairs 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 staff allocated by the Provincial Party Standing Committee to agencies and units, and the total number of civil servant positions allocated by the Central Organization Committee.

However, the Legal Affairs Committee found that, with no reserve staffing available in 2025, it would be difficult to arrange and allocate staffing for unexpected situations, especially since some agencies have not yet met the downsizing schedule for 2025 as outlined in Plan No. 138 of the Provincial Party Committee.

Therefore, the Legal Affairs Committee proposes that the Department of Internal Affairs strengthen monitoring and management of personnel allocation to ensure that agencies implement the downsizing roadmap correctly by the end of the 2022-2026 period; and resolutely request the recovery of personnel quotas from agencies and units that have not fully utilized their allocated quotas for many years (except in cases where personnel are to be streamlined in a later period).

Director of the Department of Internal Affairs Nguyen Viet Hung clarified the relevant issues, particularly the difficulties arising from the lack of reserve personnel; he also shared his views and solutions to ensure both employment and the planned downsizing of personnel for the entire period.

In conclusion, the Head of the Legal Affairs Committee of the Provincial People's Council, Pham Thanh Chung, basically agreed and requested the Department of Internal Affairs (the drafting agency) and the Provincial People's Committee, after receiving the Committee's verification report, to incorporate the feedback and finalize the draft Resolution to be submitted to the Provincial People's Council at its 25th session.

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