Recently, the Government of Vietnam issued Resolution 102/NQ-CP 2020 on staffing solutions in education and healthcare sectors.
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Resolution 102/NQ-CP: Solutions regarding staffing in education and healthcare - Illustrative photo
Resolution 102/NQ-CP clearly states that the restructuring of public service providers and staff streamlining must be associated with improving the quality of public service provision. To address immediate difficulties for ministries, sectors, and localities and to ensure the implementation of the policy “students need teachers” and “patients need healthcare workers,” the Government of Vietnam requires ministries, sectors, and localities to execute the following solutions:
First, thoroughly and seriously implement Resolution 19-NQ/TW and Resolution 08/NQ-CP concerning the Government of Vietnam’s Action Program to implement Resolution 19-NQ/TW.
Second, public service providers in education and healthcare partially covering their own recurrent expenditures are allowed to sign labor contracts with positions like teachers and healthcare workers, within the total number of employees paid from the revenue sources assigned by competent authorities.
The units must increase allocations to the welfare funds sufficiently to address policies for these labor contracts when they are terminated.
Third, public service providers in education and healthcare that partially ensure regular expenses and education and healthcare public service units fully covered by the state budget are permitted to sign labor contracts (less than 12 months) for positions like teachers and healthcare workers within the staffing quotas assigned by competent authorities and according to the standards set by the Ministry of Education and Training and the Ministry of Health to promptly replace teachers and healthcare workers on maternity leave and retirement (who are yet to be recruited replacements) and to arrange teachers for the second session of the day (for institutions teaching two sessions/day).
Annually, competent recruiting authorities must organize recruitment to replace the lacking teachers and healthcare workers, ensuring sufficient operational workforces as authorized. Do not extend the specialized labor contracts beyond 12 months for positions like teachers and healthcare workers.
Fourth, for preschool and primary education in areas with particularly difficult socio-economic conditions, ensure the staffing of teachers for two sessions per day as regulated.
Besides the solutions noted by the Government of Vietnam, the Ministry of Education and Training and the Ministry of Health have additional responsibilities:
Ministry of Education and Training:
- Review and amend student/class regulations stipulated in the education levels' Charter and the teacher/class standards specified in Joint Circular 06/2015/TTLT-BGDDT-BNV and Circular 16/2017/TT-BGDDT to align with the implementation of the new general education program and textbooks and the actual conditions of each region, to be completed in Q4 2020;
- Review and evaluate the mechanisms and policies for non-public preschool and general education institutions to propose comprehensive solutions, amend, supplement, or issue new mechanisms and policies to facilitate and encourage private organizations and individuals to establish private schools.
- Propose solutions for private investment in the second session of the day for preschool and primary education, submit to the Government of Vietnam in Q3 2020.
Ministry of Health:
- Review and amend the healthcare worker/bed and healthcare worker/population standards stipulated in Joint Circular 08/2007/TTLT-BYT-BNV guiding the staffing levels in state healthcare facilities, to be completed in Q4 2020;
- Urgently execute the tasks assigned by the Government of Vietnam in Resolution 08/NQ-CP dated January 24, 2018, on the Government of Vietnam’s Action Program implementing Resolution 19-NQ/TW.
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