Vietnam: Heads of Ministry-level agencies may carry out the secondment of officials, public employees from July 01, 2020

According to Clause 3 Article 1 of the Law on amendments to some Articles of the Law on Government Organization and Law on Local Government Organization of Vietnam, some Clauses of Article 34 of the Law on Government Organization 2015 of Vietnam, duties and powers of Ministers and Heads of Ministry-level agencies as head persons of Ministries and Ministry-level agencies are specified as follows:

- Carry out the recruitment, appointment, discharge, accept the resignation of, dispatch, alternation, secondment, assessment, planning, training, nurturing, rewarding and punishment of officials and public employees, and grant powers to manage public officials and public employees working for affiliates in accordance with regulations of law;

- Decide to establish public service providers in accordance with regulations of law;

- Appoint, discharge, accept the resignation of, dispatch, alternate, second, suspend, assess, reward and punish directors and their deputies of affiliates.

Besides, this new Law also amends organizational structure of Ministries and Ministry-level agencies, to be specific, each of the departments, offices, inspectorates, bureaus, general departments and public service providers shall have 01 director and up to 04 deputies; Ministers and directors of ministerial agencies shall decide on the number of deputy directors of each of the departments, offices, inspectorates, bureaus, general departments and public service providers, which must be restricted to a maximum of 03 persons.

View more details at the Law on amendments to some Articles of the Law on Government Organization and Law on Local Government Organization of Vietnam, effective from July 01, 2020.

Thu Ba

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