The statute of limitations for disciplining officials, civil servants and public employees will be redefined.

Staff of Nghi Loc Land Use Registration Office carry out the procedure of granting and exchanging Land Use Certificates. Photo for reference.

Discussing the draft Law on Cadres, Civil Servants and the revised Law on Public Employees being discussed by the National Assembly, Minister of Home Affairs Le Vinh Tan said that this law amendment focuses on four major issues:

The first,Separation between civil servants and public employees in public service units. The heads and deputy heads of public service units at the provincial level or units under the central ministries and branches are no longer civil servants but are transferred to the civil service regime.

Those appointed to represent management in state-owned enterprises will have their state management separated from business administration.

Minister of Home Affairs Le Vinh Tan. Photo: Minh Dat

This does not apply to basic public service units serving political and state management tasks, the leaders of these units are still civil servants.

Monday,Interconnection between civil servants at commune and district levels and above and those working in state-owned enterprises, operating in public service units, if qualified as civil servants, when transferring to work in state administrative agencies, they do not have to take civil service exams.

People who were previously civil servants and were seconded or transferred to work in public service units when they return are still civil servants and do not need to retake the exam.

Tuesday,Contracts with civil servants have always been indefinite like civil service contracts, but this time they must be converted to fixed-term contracts, except in remote areas.

There is also another option, after the probationary period is completed, the contract will be implemented for a certain period of time. Then, if these officials meet the requirements, they will continue with a long-term contract. That is, there is a term but it is only an initial term.

The government chose the option of "abolishing lifelong tenure" for civil servants, only implementing them under fixed-term contracts.

WednesdayDisciplinary action against cadres, civil servants and public employees is currently being implemented differently from the Party's handling method in both form and time limit. This time, the disciplinary action method will be determined accordingly.

The statute of limitations must also be determined, not just 24 months but maybe 2 years, 5 years, 10 years depending on the level of violation, whether it is less serious, serious or especially serious, in order to have appropriate handling in the coming time.

Many National Assembly deputies are concerned about the draft law that eliminates the disciplinary form of demotion. For example, Deputy Head of the Central Inspection Commission Hoang Van Tra said: "It would be a waste if a department director was disciplined to become a specialist." What does the Minister think about this issue?

- There are also many different opinions on abolishing the disciplinary form of demotion. We will continue to listen to the opinions of delegates to have clear statistics and analysis.

The aim of this is to bring state disciplinary measures in line with Party disciplinary measures. Currently, Party disciplinary measures do not include demotion.

If this form of discipline is left, it is easy to be lenient, instead of being dismissed, it is demoted.

Currently, the number of deputies is controlled at a maximum, if demoted from the chief to deputy level, there will be an excess number of deputies. Therefore, it is necessary to study and harmonize, ensuring that violations are handled appropriately to avoid the situation of taking advantage of applying lighter punishments.

As for saying that being dismissed means losing everything, I don't think it's true. When being dismissed to another position, after 1 year, if they correct their violations, they will still be considered, evaluated for planning, and reappointed equally.

Civil servant salaries will increase

Will this amendment to the Law on Cadres and Civil Servants help overcome the situation of "going to work with an umbrella in the morning and coming home with an umbrella in the evening", Minister?

- In the solution to build a team of cadres and civil servantsCivil servants have the capacity to perform public duties, serve the people and businesses. This draft law has stricter regulations on the input quality of civil servants.

Resolution 26 of the Central Committee also stipulates that the civil service examination or civil service recruitment will be amended in the form of examination or selection in special cases, but with a very strict spirit regarding input quality.

Along with that is the control by reducing the payroll rate in localities, each 5-year period is 10% for screening. At the same time, implement the job position project and pay salary according to job position.

This time, combining the restructuring of the apparatus with streamlining the payroll, restructuring the staff, civil servants, and public employees, and implementing new salaries, the quality of the staff will certainly be improved and correspondingly, income will increase.

In the plan to implement the Public Service Culture project, the Ministry mentioned researching and proposing to supplement regulations on public service culture in the Law on Cadres, Civil Servants and the Law on Public Employees. So does the draft mention that "civil servants are not allowed to flatter their superiors for impure motives"?

- There are regulations that are institutionalized in other ways and not put into law. This is the same, it cannot be put into law.