In 2026, Hanoi implements staff reduction as requested by the Politburo of Vietnam
In 2026, Hanoi implements staff reduction as requested by the Politburo of Vietnam
According to Subsection 3, Section 1 of Plan 01/KH-UBND 2025, the City of Hanoi sets out the purpose, requirements, and principles for arrangement:
I. PURPOSE, REQUIREMENTS, AND PRINCIPLES FOR ARRANGEMENT
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- Principles for Arrangement
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3.2. Specific Principles
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3.2.7. Regarding the staffing and number of employees
- Temporarily maintain the staffing numbers of officials and public employees as assigned to agencies and units in 2025. The staffing numbers of new agencies, localities, and units will be allocated based on the number of staff assigned to the previous agencies and units before rearranging, merging, and consolidating.
- After consolidation and arrangement; agencies and units shall develop job position projects, clearly define the required official staffing, and plan for staff reduction according to Central Government regulations. Conduct reviews to reduce staffing for shared departments post-merger and consolidation according to a set timeline.
- In 2026, the City will reduce staffing by 5% to ensure the streamlining target as requested by the Politburo.
The principles for arrangement regarding staffing and employee numbers in Hanoi specify that by 2026, the City will carry out a 5% staff reduction to meet the streamlining target requested by the Politburo.
Therefore, in 2026, the City of Hanoi will implement staff reductions to ensure the streamlining target as requested by the Politburo, cutting staff by 5%.
In 2026, Hanoi implements staff reduction as requested by the Politburo of Vietnam (Image from the Internet)
What is the expected arrangement plan, streamlining of the organizational machinery for provincial departments and authorities subject to task transfer and reception in Hanoi?
According to Subsection 2, Section 2 of Plan 01/KH-UBND 2025, the City of Hanoi outlines the expected arrangement plan and streamlining of the organizational machinery for provincial departments and authorities subject to task transfer and reception in Hanoi as follows:
- The Department of Health is expected to take over the state management function of social welfare; children; prevention and combat against social evils from the Department of Labor - War Invalids and Social Affairs; and consolidate its internal organizational machinery accordingly.
- The Department of Education and Training is expected to assume the state management function of vocational education from the Department of Labor - War Invalids and Social Affairs; and consolidate its internal organizational machinery accordingly.
- The Department of Industry and Trade will take over the local market management department from the Ministry of Industry and Trade and reorganize it into a Market Management Sub-department under the Department of Industry and Trade; consolidating its internal organizational machinery accordingly.
- The Ethnic Affairs Committee will assume the existing functions, duties, organizational machinery, and staffing of the Religious Affairs Committee under the Department of Home Affairs; and the poverty reduction functions from the Department of Labor - War Invalids and Social Affairs to establish the Ethnic - Religious Affairs Committee; consolidating its internal organizational machinery accordingly.
- The Office of the City People's Committee will take over functions, duties, organizational machinery, and staffing of the Department of Foreign Affairs and foreign investment promotion duties from the Hanoi Promotion Center for Investment, Trade, and Tourism; consolidating its internal organizational machinery accordingly.
Which agency in Vietnam decides the official staffing in public service providers of People's Committees at all levels within the province?
Pursuant to Clause 2, Article 19 of Law on the Organization of Local Government 2015 (amended by Clause 4, Article 150 of Law on the Organization of the People's Courts 2024) stipulating the tasks and powers of the provincial People's Council:
Article 19. Tasks and powers of the Provincial People's Council
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- Tasks and powers of the Provincial People's Council in building the government:
a) Electing, dismissing, removing from office Chairpersons of the People's Council, Vice Chairpersons of the People's Council, Heads, Vice Heads of the provincial People's Council; electing, dismissing, removing from office Chairpersons of the People's Committee, Vice Chairpersons of the People's Committee and Members of the Provincial People's Committee; electing, dismissing, and removing judges at the provincial People's Court, specialized first-instance People's Court;
b) Taking votes of confidence, voting on confidence for positions elected by the provincial People's Council in accordance with Articles 88 and 89 of this Law;
c) Removing representatives of the provincial People's Council and accepting representatives of the provincial People's Council's resignation from their duties;
d) Deciding to establish or abolish specialized agencies under the provincial People's Committee;
dd) Deciding the official staffing in the Provincial People's Council, People's Committee agencies, public service providers of People's Committees at all levels within the province based on the staffing criteria allocated by the Government of Vietnam; determining the number and level of allowances for non-specialized workers at the commune level, in villages, residential groups and approving the total number of workers in public service providers under the province's management scope according to the Government of Vietnam's regulations;
e) Deciding on the establishment, dissolution, merger, division of villages, residential groups; naming, renaming villages, residential groups, streets, squares, public works in the locality according to legal regulations.
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The Provincial People's Council decides the official staffing in the Provincial People's Council, People's Committee agencies, and public service providers of People's Committees at all levels within the province based on the staffing quotas assigned by the Government of Vietnam.
