Proposal to remove promotion of civil servant professional titles
The Ministry of Home Affairs has issued some suggestions for raising civil servant ranks and promoting professional titles for Vietnam.
In the process of asking for comments on the Law on Cadres and Civil Servants (amended), the Ministry of Home Affairs has looked at the practices of many countries in the world and given some suggestions for raising civil servant ranks and promoting professional titles for Vietnam.
Countries shall conduct upgrades based on work results, achievements and decentralize to the head of the agency based on work performance assessment.
The Ministry of Home Affairs said that in Vietnam today, the organization of promotion exams has some shortcomings.
Firstly, the exam has not really assessed the candidate's ability, the general knowledge subject is still heavy in terms of acquired knowledge, and does not reflect the understanding and capacity of civil servants.
Second, there is a phenomenon of civil servants studying ethnic minority language certificates to be exempted from the foreign language exam, however, the job position does not need to use foreign languages or ethnic minority languages.
Third, the competition and failure rate in the promotion exam is very low. At the same time, organizing the promotion exam is costly and costly due to having to complete the certificates of IT, foreign languages, ethnic languages, and training according to the rank, time and effort, easily leading to negative results.
In addition, civil servants taking the promotion exam have the main purpose of increasing their salary, not focusing on meeting the job requirements of a higher rank.
The Ministry of Home Affairs believes that the consideration of promotion on the basis of "excellent achievements in public service activities during the time holding the current civil servant position, recognized by competent authorities" is not in accordance with the regulations related to the rotation of cadres and civil servants holding leadership and management positions and job transfer.
The rotation, change of job positions, and transfer of civil servants affects the conversion of civil servant ranks (specialty ranks to inspectors, enforcement officers, investigators, etc.) while the achievements achieved during the time holding the position before the conversion, although still have the same value, are not the current civil servant ranks...
Therefore, the Ministry believes that it is possible to consider removing the promotion exam and replacing it with a civil servant promotion exam based on working capacity and achievements in the old position.
According to the Ministry of Home Affairs, many countries are considering promotion to demonstrate the path of career development for civil servants.
For Vietnam, there is still a situation where civil servants go to school to improve their professional qualifications and complete all types of certificates according to the professional title ranking standards. The promotion of civil servants mainly solves the problem of salary increase, not reflecting the nature of promotion.
The Ministry of Home Affairs takes the example of high schools, which do not have differences in teaching quality for grade 3 and grade 2 teachers in the health sector; grade 3 and grade 2 doctors also do not have differences in working capacity.
Therefore, the Ministry of Home Affairs proposes that Vietnam should consider increasing salaries for civil servants and eliminate the mechanism for considering promotion of professional titles.
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