VOA, October 02, 2022

In the past two and half years, the Government of Vietnam has recorded nearly 40,000 cases of public employees resigned for reason of low salary and work pressure.

According to state media, at the regular Government press conference, when asked by reporters about the state employees leaving their jobs, Deputy Interior Minister Nguyen Duy Thang said that this is a matter of special public concern, especially after it was reported that 9,397 medical staff had quit their jobs in the past one and half year.

Mr. Thang said that the COVID-19 epidemic in the past two years has placed great pressure on the health and education sectors.

“In some localities, some cadres, civil servants and public employees due to uneven income compared to people in the area, so they move to another job”.

According to a representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the two sectors with the largest number of employees leaving and changing jobs in recent years are education with more than 16,000 people, and health care with nearly 12,200 people.

Mr. Thang said that on average each year, 15,820 people quit their jobs in the public sector, accounting for about 0.8% of the total assigned payroll. Of which, the central government accounts for 18%, the locality 82%; civil servants more than 4,000 people, public emplyees more than 35,000 people.

The reasons given by Mr. Thang include objective and subjective. The objective reason is due to the development of the market economy with the participation of many economic sectors and the export labor market. Talking about subjective reasons, Mr. Thang said the regime policy on

wages have a lot of difficulties in the public sector, compared to demand on the necessities of life on cadres, civil servants and public employees.