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Nearly 4,000 jobs to be cut from state payroll in Vietnam

Xinhua, October 21, 2016 Adjust font size:

As many as 3,832 jobs at all levels on the state payroll in Vietnam will be cut in 2017 to ease payroll pressure on the national budget and improve staff performance.

According to a decision released by Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc, the total number of government staff and officers at ministries, localities and government agencies on state payroll in various sectors next year will hit 269,084, down 1.4 percent compared to this year's figure.

Phuc urged the Ministry of Home Affairs (MoHA) to allocate government staff on the state payroll to each ministry, agency and locality, local Vietnam News online newspaper reported Friday.

Ministries, agencies and localities are asked to carefully arrange employees' roles relevant to their abilities and responsibilities, said Phuc.

According to Le Vinh Tan, Minister of Home Affairs, over 10,000 civil servants lost their jobs in the first half of 2016, raising the number of employees removed from the country's administrative system to 15,799 since the beginning of 2015.

However, the figures fell short of the target of removing 40,000 staff, said Tan.

Earlier, the MoHA set a target of reducing 100,000 state employees between 2014 and 2020. Endit