Continue streamlining the workforce and propose salary adjustments for officials and civil servants.
The Ministry of Interior will continue to monitor and inspect the review, arrangement, and placement of officials, civil servants, and public employees to ensure they are assigned to the correct positions; and propose adjustments to salaries and allowances for officials, civil servants, public employees, and the armed forces.
According to Report No. 12662 of the Ministry of Interior on the implementation of administrative reform, in 2026, the streamlining of internal organizations of ministries, central agencies, local departments and sectors, and public service units and state-owned enterprises will continue to be reviewed.
The report emphasizes the need for localities to urgently fill vacant positions of officials and civil servants, ensuring sufficient numbers, learning from experience as they go, and promptly proposing solutions to improve the effectiveness of personnel management, ensuring the smooth and efficient operation of the two-tiered local government apparatus.
In addition, the Ministry of Interior stated that ministries, sectors, and localities must strictly implement Conclusion No. 226/2025 of the Party Central Committee on rectifying working methods and improving the effectiveness of the political system. Relevant agencies need to effectively implement new mechanisms and policies on attracting and utilizing talent within the administrative apparatus, and innovate methods of evaluating officials, civil servants, and public employees based on competence and performance results.
The Ministry of Interior's report emphasizes the continued implementation of policies to streamline staffing, restructure, and improve the quality of the workforce of officials, civil servants, and public employees. Simultaneously, ministries, sectors, and localities need to strictly implement the regulations and conclusions of the Politburo on staffing management for the period 2022-2026, report to competent authorities on the results of staffing management for the period 2022-2026, and propose staffing levels for the period 2026-2031 for their respective ministries, sectors, and localities.
The Ministry of Interior continues to urge and inspect the review, arrangement, and placement of officials, civil servants, and public employees to ensure they are assigned to the correct positions to meet job requirements; propose adjustments to salaries and allowances for officials, civil servants, public employees, and the armed forces after the reorganization of the organizational structure and the two-level local government; and develop and finalize the decree regulating civil servant job positions.
The Ministry of Interior also addressed the issue of upgrading the national database on public assets, promptly updating and managing information on all public assets; accelerating the process of handling public assets and office buildings after administrative unit reorganization; and reviewing all public assets and office buildings that are unused, underutilized, or used for purposes other than intended, in order to handle them according to regulations.
Relevant ministries, departments, and localities should urgently finalize provincial, commune, and special zone planning; take the lead in coordinating with localities to allocate funds, complete office buildings, equipment, and working facilities, and handle surplus office buildings to ensure stable and efficient operation...
