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The Ministry of Home Affairs has just released a draft governmental decree on staff streamlining in the public sector, under which about 100,000 state employees will be made redundant by 2020.
The decree states that the plan is intended to enhance the qualifications of public servants and thereby boost their work performance.
Accordingly, the proposed personnel reduction will include civil servants, employees at state agencies with labor contracts of indefinite terms, officials of state-owned one-member limited liability companies, and associations’ staff.
The downsizing is expected to be done within six years from now, with about 80 percent of the reduced personnel to prematurely retire and some 20 percent to be slashed.
The total cost for the personnel streamlining plan is about VND8 trillion ($377.3 million). On average, the expenses spent on an employee made to retire early are about VND75 million ($3,500) and are higher to fire an employee, at VND90 million ($4,245).
At a meeting in early 2013, Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc warned that among the total of 2.8 million civil servants, as many as 30 percent of them did not work appropriately.
The previous personnel cut plan under Decree 132, which became invalid in 2012, has contributed to improving the qualifications of civil servants, but its results have fallen short of expectations, the ministry said.
Who may be the casualties?
With a view to improve the situation, the draft decree elaborates on which public servants will be laid off by 2020.
The first casualties are those whose qualifications are not commensurate with their current jobs, but it is difficult to transfer them to other positions.
The government will also sack those who have fulfilled their duties for two consecutive years but are still regarded as having weak professional skills, or those who have satisfactorily done their jobs for one year but fail to do so the following year.
State employees who represent the government at state-invested companies no longer in operation will also be subject to the dismissal if it is impossible to appoint them to new posts.
The draft decree provides other regulations and conditions related to personnel streamlining that will be implemented from 2014 to December 31, 2020.
The home affairs ministry said it has sent a document to other ministries and local authorities for their consideration.
More may lose jobs
A higher number of state employees may be removed from the public sector, Dr. Thang Van Phuc, former Deputy Minister of Home Affairs, told Doi Song va Phap Luat (Life and Law) newspaper.
It is necessary to continue determining the proper size of the workforce of the public sector and making annual reforms to the state apparatus, Dr. Phuc said.
The number of jobs to be slashed should depend on actual conditions, he said, adding that the proportion of staff made redundant through a reform once accounted for up to 50 percent in some countries, with 30 percent recorded in Japan.
In a recent interview with Tuoi Tre, Nguyen Sy Cuong, the standing member of the National Assembly’s Law Committee and the former Chief Inspector of the Ministry of Home Affairs, said, “It is impossible to fix a common proportion of state employees to be fired for all agencies, since each of them has their own specific conditions.
“This means every agency will have its own proportions, and based on such proportions, we can calculate an overall rate for the whole country.”
Meanwhile, labor expert Dr. Nguyen Huu Dung recently told Khoa hoc va Doi song (Science and Life) newspaper that he highly appreciates the streamlining proposal, but who specifically will be subject to the slash is a cause for his concern.
The reality is that a number of public servants who should be sacked will remain on the payroll while others who perform well at work may lose their jobs, Dr. Dung explained.
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