On November 29, 2018, the Government issued Decree No. 161/2018/ND-CP amending and supplementing a number of regulations on the recruitment of civil servants and public servants, promotion of civil servants, promotion of officials and implement a contract regime for some types of work in state administrative agencies and public non-business units. This Decree takes effect from January 15, 2019.
Accordingly, Decree No. 161/2018 / ND-CP has made notable changes as follows:
1. Do not distinguish diplomas when recruiting civil servants and officials
Agencies using public servants and officials are entitled to determine the conditions for recruiting civil servants and civil servants as required by the candidate position, but must not distinguish the type of training, diploma, certificate, school public, non-public schools.
Thereby, there will be no longer a distinction between regular and in-service diploma, diploma 2, distance education … when recruiting civil servants and officials.
2. Priority scores in recruitment exams for civil servants and public employees
According to Decree No. 161/2018 / ND-CP, a number of subjects of civil servant examination and civil servants are no longer entitled to many priority points as before.
Specifically, if before, war invalids, beneficiaries of policies such as war invalids, Hero of Labor … are allowed to add 30 points to the examination or admission, then now, only 7.5 points will be added to the exam results. Round 2. Similarly, ethnic minority people, army officers and police officers; Professional soldiers, war invalids, martyrs can only add 5 points to the second round result, instead of 20 points to the total score.
3. Being allowed to sign 02 times of a definite contract with officials
Decree No. 161/2018 / ND-CP stipulates in details about the work contract of officials.
Accordingly, public employees recruited into public service units must sign contracts to work for the first time from full 12 months to 36 months. After the expiry of this time limit, the head of the public non-business unit shall consider and decide to sign a contract for determining a term or an indefinite term or terminate the work contract. If signing a contract for a definite term, after the expiry of the contract, the head of the unit must consider signing a contract with indefinite term or terminate the contract.
Thus, it can be seen that Decree No. 161/2018 / ND-CP has made timely and practical adjustments, consistent with the policy of fairness, publicity, transparency and efficiency of the State in operation. recruitment examinations, recruitment of civil servants and officials, thereby contributing significantly to the construction of a contingent of truly qualified civil servants, especially in the new development period with many challenges of the country. like nowadays.