New Regulations on Criteria for Evaluating and Classifying Officials and Public Employees

Decree 88/2017/ND-CP stipulates that the timing for evaluating and classifying officials and public employees shall be conducted in December each year, before the annual review and commendation. For public service providers operating in the fields of education, training, and other sectors that conclude their work year before December, the timing for evaluating and classifying officials and public employees is decided by the head of the unit.

The decree specifies the evaluation process for the head and deputy head of an agency or unit as follows:

First, the public employee prepares a self-assessment report on their work performance based on assigned tasks.

Second, the public employee presents the self-assessment report at a meeting of the agency or unit for all participants to provide feedback. The feedback is recorded in the meeting minutes and approved at the meeting.

For agencies or units with constitutive units, the meeting participants include representatives of the party committee, labor union, youth union, and heads of the constitutive units.

For agencies or units without constitutive units, all public employees and workers of the agency or unit participate.

Third, the party committee at the same level provides written feedback on the evaluated and classified public employee.

Fourth, the head of the directly superior agency or unit considers the feedback at the meeting and the written feedback from the party committee at the same level to make an evaluation and classification decision for the head.

Additionally, the head of the agency or unit refers to the feedback at the meeting and the written feedback from the party committee at the same level to make an evaluation and classification decision for the deputy heads appointed by them.

If the deputy heads are not appointed by the head according to the management hierarchy, the head of the agency or unit considers the feedback at the meeting and the written feedback from the party committee at the same level, provides a written evaluation and proposes the directly superior head to consider and decide the evaluation and classification for their deputy heads.

Fifth, the head of the directly superior agency or unit announces the evaluation and classification results to the public employee as per the regulations.

Decree No. 88/2017/ND-CP also amends the evaluation and classification criteria for public employees at satisfactory completion of tasks and good completion of tasks by removing the requirement to meet the criterion: Having at least one scientific work, project, topic, or initiative applied and bringing effective results in professional tasks, recognized by the competent authority.

Only public employees evaluated as excellently completing tasks must meet the criterion for scientific works, projects, topics, or initiatives as mentioned above.

Decree 88/2017/ND-CP takes effect from September 15, 2017. It also clearly states that, based on the specific conditions of agencies, organizations, and units, the heads of these agencies, organizations, and units shall develop detailed criteria to evaluate and classify officials and public employees.

This must take into account the proportion of work volume completed by the officials and public employees compared to the overall work volume of their agency, organization, or unit when evaluating and classifying them.

Additionally, the decree encourages the application of information technology to ensure appropriate evaluation and classification of officials and public employees.

The decree requires the heads of agencies managing officials and public employees to be responsible for organizing the annual evaluation and classification of their officials and public employees according to the regulations stipulated in this decree and to send the evaluation results to the Ministry of Home Affairs for compilation before March 1 each year.

Source: Financial Journal

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