Criteria for Evaluation and Classification of Officials and Public Employees at the End of 2019

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According to the provisions of Article 4 Decree 56/2015/ND-CP, Section II Guidance 1326/HD-UBDT, the evaluation of officials and public employees is based on the following grounds:

For officials, evaluation bases include:

- Obligations, ethics, communication culture, and prohibited activities for officials, as stipulated in the Law on Officials;- Standards for positions and titles of officials;- Annual work programs and plans of the agency, organization, or unit within their direct management authority or assigned, approved, or delegated by the competent authority.

For public employees, evaluation bases include:

- Obligations, ethics, communication culture, and prohibited activities for public employees as stipulated in the Law on Officials:

+ Obligations to the Communist Party, the State, and the people of public employees:

- Loyalty to the Communist Party of Vietnam and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam; protecting the honor of the Motherland and national interests;- Respecting the people, diligently serving the people;- Maintaining close contact with the people, listening to opinions and being supervised by the people;- Strictly adhering to the Party's line, policies, and State laws.

+ Obligations of public employees in the execution of duties:

- Accurately and fully performing and being accountable for the results of their assigned responsibilities and powers;- Maintaining organizational discipline; strictly following the internal rules and regulations of the agency, organization, or unit; reporting to the competent authority when discovering violations of law within the agency, organization, or unit; protecting state secrets;- Proactively and closely coordinating in the execution of duties; maintaining unity within the agency, organization, or unit;- Protecting, managing, and effectively and thriftily using assigned state property;- Complying with decisions from superiors. When there is a basis to believe that the decision is unlawful, they must promptly report in writing to the decision-maker;- Other obligations as per the law.

+ Obligations of public employees who are heads of agencies:

In addition to fulfilling the above-mentioned regulations, public employees who are heads of agencies, organizations, or units must also perform the following obligations:

- Directing and organizing the implementation of assigned tasks and being accountable for the results of the agency's, organization's, or unit's operations;- Inspecting, urging, and guiding the execution of duties by public employees;- Organizing the implementation of measures to prevent bureaucracy, corruption, practice thrift, prevent wastefulness, and be accountable for the occurrence of bureaucracy, corruption, wastefulness within the agency, organization, or unit;- Organizing the implementation of legal provisions on grassroots democracy, workplace culture in the agency, organization, or unit; promptly and strictly handling public employees under their management who commit disciplinary or legal violations, have bureaucratic, bossy, or authoritarian attitudes, causing difficulties for citizens;- Promptly resolving complaints, denunciations, and recommendations from individuals, organizations as per the law or referring to the competent authority for resolution;- Other obligations as per the law.

+ Ethics of public employees: Public employees must practice thrift, integrity, impartiality, and transparency in public duties.

+ Communication culture in the workplace:

- In workplace communication, public employees must maintain a polite and respectful attitude toward colleagues; the communication language must be standard, clear, and coherent;- Officials and public employees must listen to colleagues’ opinions; be fair, impartial, and objective in feedback and evaluation; promote internal democracy and unity;- When performing duties, public employees must wear badges or public employee cards; have a polite demeanor; maintain the reputation and honor of the agency, organization, unit, and colleagues.

+ Communication culture with the people:

- Officials and public employees must be close to the people; have a polite, serious, and humble demeanor; and the communication language must be standard, clear, and coherent;- Officials and public employees must not be bureaucratic, authoritarian, or cause difficulties and troubles for the people when performing duties.

+ Activities public employees are prohibited from relating to professional ethics:

- Shirking responsibility, evading assigned tasks; causing factionalism, internal disunity; unilaterally quitting or participating in strikes;- Illegally using state or people’s property;- Abusing assigned tasks and powers; using information related to public duties for personal gain;- Discriminating based on ethnicity, gender, social class, belief, or religion in any form.

+ Activities public employees are prohibited from relating to state secrets: Officials and public employees must not disclose state secret-related information in any form.

+ Other prohibited activities for public employees: Apart from the prohibited activities mentioned in points f and g, public employees are not permitted to engage in production, business, personnel work as stipulated in the Law on Anti-Corruption, the Law on Practice Thrift and Anti-Waste, and other activities as per the law and competent authorities.

- Standards for public employee grades and leadership, management positions: As stipulated in Circular 11/2014/TT-BNV.

- Tasks as per annual work programs and plans assigned by leaders or unforeseen duties assigned, directed, or organized: Public employees must complete annually assigned work programs and plans, and orchestrate assigned urgent tasks.

For public employees, evaluation bases include:

- Commitments in the signed employment contract;- Regulations on professional ethics, the code of conduct for public employees.

Nguyen Trinh

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