Amendment of regulations on assessment and classification of cadres, civil servants and public employees

The Government has just issued Decree No. 48/2023/ND-CP dated July 17, 2023 amending and supplementing a number of articles of Decree No. 90/2020/ND-CP dated August 13, 2020 on assessment and classification of the quality of cadres, civil servants and public employees.

Supplementing principles for evaluating and classifying the quality of cadres, civil servants and public employees

Regulations on principles for evaluating and classifying the quality of cadres, civil servants and public employees, in addition to the 4 principles prescribed in Decree No. 90/2020/ND-CP, Decree 48/3023/ND-CP has added 2 more principles including:

5- Cadres, civil servants and public employees subject to party or administrative discipline shall have their quality assessed and classified as follows:

a) Cadres, civil servants and public employees who are subject to party or administrative disciplinary action in the year of assessment shall be classified as having failed to complete their tasks, except for the case specified in Point b of this Clause.

b) In case the violation has not been subject to a disciplinary decision by a competent authority but has been used as a basis for assessing and classifying the quality as not completing the task in the assessment year, the disciplinary decision issued after the assessment year for that violation (if any) shall not be counted for assessing and classifying the quality in the year of the disciplinary decision.

c) In case a cadre, civil servant or public employee is a party member and has been subject to party discipline and administrative discipline for the same violation but the party discipline decision and administrative discipline decision are not effective in the same year of assessment, it will only be considered as a basis for quality classification in one year of assessment.

6- The rate of cadres, civil servants and public employees classified as "Excellently completing tasks" out of the total number of cadres, civil servants and public employees at the same agency, organization or unit and for each group of subjects with similar tasks must not exceed the rate of Party members classified as "Excellently completing tasks" according to Party regulations. In cases where agencies, organizations or units have outstanding achievements, exceed the assigned tasks plan, complete unexpected tasks well, propose or organize innovation, create positive changes, bring practical values ​​and effectiveness, the competent authority shall decide on the rate of excellently completing tasks in accordance with reality, ensuring the rights and legitimate interests of cadres, civil servants and public employees.

Store documents evaluating and classifying the quality of cadres, civil servants and public employees in electronic form.

According to Decree 48/3023/ND-CP, documents on quality assessment and classification results are stored in electronic form, including:

1- Minutes of meeting comments and evaluation.

2- Evaluation and classification form for the quality of cadres, civil servants and public employees.

3- Comments from the workplace party committee (if any).

4- Conclusion and written notification of the results of assessment and classification of the quality of cadres, civil servants and public employees by competent authorities.

5- Records of handling recommendations on results of assessment and classification of quality of cadres, civil servants and public employees (if any).

6- Other relevant documents (if any).

The Decree clearly states that, in addition to being kept in electronic form, the Assessment and Classification Form for the Quality of Cadres, Civil Servants and Public Employees and the Conclusion and written notification of the results of the assessment and classification of the quality of Cadres, Civil Servants and Public Employees by the competent authority must also be kept in writing in the files of cadres, civil servants and public employees.

Issue assessment regulations suitable to the characteristics of your agency, organization or unit.

Decree 48/3023/ND-CP clearly states that, based on the regulations of the competent authority managing cadres, civil servants and public employees on quality assessment and classification, agencies, organizations and units employing cadres, civil servants and public employees shall promulgate assessment regulations suitable to the characteristics of their agencies, organizations and units.

The content of the Regulation must clearly define specific products associated with each job position, criteria for assessing quality, efficiency, and time of assessment by quarter, month or week (if any); basis for determining the percentage of work completion; component criteria for assessing and classifying the quality of cadres, civil servants and public employees, taking into account the ratio of the workload of cadres, civil servants and public employees compared to the total workload of the agency, organization or unit; encourage the application of information technology to assess and classify the quality of cadres, civil servants and public employees, ensuring compliance with the provisions of this Decree.

The assessment and classification of the quality of people working in key organizations shall comply with the provisions of the law on key organizations and shall not be contrary to the principles of assessment and classification of cadres of competent authorities.

This Decree comes into force from September 15, 2023.

No review will be made for cases where quality classification results have been obtained before the effective date of this Decree. In cases where competent authorities have reviewed, evaluated, and classified the quality of cadres, civil servants, and public employees before the effective date of this Decree, the provisions of law at that time shall continue to be applied for implementation.