Implementing the Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Cadres and Civil Servants

Also attending the conference were representatives of leaders of units, localities; relevant departments and branches.

The conference deployed new contents of the Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Government Organization andLaw on Organization of Local GovernmentOn June 19, 2015, the National Assembly promulgated the Law on Government Organization and the Law on Local Government Organization.

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However, after the implementation of the two Laws, there have been shortcomings that need to be overcome, especially the legalization of the Party's policies in the Resolutions of the Central Committee and the 12th Politburo on continuing to innovate and reorganize the apparatus of the political system from the Central to the local level in the direction of regulating criteria for establishing organizations, streamlining focal points, reducing intermediate levels, reasonably regulating the number of deputy heads of organizations, and reasonably reducing the number of People's Council delegates at all levels to improve the quality, effectiveness and efficiency of the operations of the Government and local authorities at all levels.

Based on the above request, the Government submitted and at the 8th session of the 14th National Assembly passed the Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Government Organization and the Law on Local Government Organization (effective from July 1, 2020). The Law amends and supplements 05/50 articles of the Law on Government Organization and 38/143 articles of the Law on Local Government Organization.

At the same time, the Conference also deployed the Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Cadres and Civil Servants;Law on Civil Servantsand related documents. The Law on Cadres and Civil Servants, effective since 2008, and the Law on Public Employees, effective since 2010, have met the requirements of building a socialist rule-of-law state of the people, by the people, for the people, and building a clean, effective, and efficient administration.

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However, after 10 years of implementationLaw on Cadres and Civil Servantsand 8 years of implementing the Law on Public Employees have revealed limitations and inadequacies such as in recruitment, talent attraction policies, assessment and classification of cadres, civil servants, public employees or disciplinary action against cadres, civil servants, public employees... and some regulations on the civil service regime need to be amended and supplemented to suit the requirements of building a rule-of-law State.

In addition, issues of distinction between civil servants and public employees; the issue of why public service units have regulations on civil servants.

Therefore, the 14th National Assembly passed the Law amending and supplementing 28/86 articles of the Law on Cadres and Civil Servants and 15/62 articles of the Law on Public Employees (effective from July 1, 2020).

At the conference, representatives of the connecting points gave their opinions on difficulties in implementing the amended laws.

The representative of the Ministry of Health also commented on the need to clarify the responsibility of the school board in issuing job positions at public universities according to Decree 106/2020/ND-CP on job positions and the number of employees in public service units, which overlaps with Decree 115/2020/ND-CP regulatingrecruitment, use and management of civil servants.