More than 5,000 teachers in Hanoi petition to receive additional income

(Dan Tri) - More than 5,000 teachers and civil servants in Hanoi sent a letter to the city's leaders requesting to review and adjust the beneficiaries of additional income according to Resolution 46.

Resolution 46/2024/NQ-HDND of the Hanoi City People's Council issued on December 10, 2024 regulates the payment of additional income for cadres, civil servants and public employees, but is limited to public service units whose regular expenditures are guaranteed by the State.

Therefore, officials who are teachers in schools assigned with autonomy in regular spending in the 2024-2025 period will not receive additional income according to Resolution 46.

These schools include all public high schools in the city and some kindergartens, primary schools, and secondary schools in districts.

It is worth noting that this autonomy is only a pilot project. In essence, schools are still public service units fully funded by the state budget.

Teachers work as invigilators at an exam (Photo: Hoang Chung).

"The revenue of these units is tuition fees which will be deducted when superiors assign a budget. The collected tuition fees will be used to supplement salary expenses; for educational career development; for professional work... not to increase revenue to increase income.

Therefore, these public schools are actually still fully funded by the state budget for regular expenses," teacher Nguyen Van Duong, Phu Xuyen High School, Hanoi, stated in his letter.

The teachers who signed the letter said that the fact that most civil servants are teachers and do not receive the additional income according to Resolution 46 will lead to negative consequences, including creating inequality among the ranks of cadres, civil servants, and public employees of the city.

"As civil servants, some people receive and some do not receive additional income, while the funding comes from salary reform surpluses from budgets at all levels.

Caring for education and improving teachers' lives has been and is the determination of the entire political system to make education truly become the "top national policy".

Teachers who are not eligible for the city's additional income will make it more difficult to implement that determination," the petition stated.

Ms. Nguyen Thi Thanh Huong - a tenured teacher at Vietnam - Poland High School - expressed: "I am also a civil servant of the Capital but do not enjoy the benefits of Decree 46 of the City People's Council like other civil servants of the capital, I find it so unfair. I, along with the tenured teachers at the school and teachers in Hanoi, hope to be treated fairly."

Previously, also due to the provisions of Resolution 46, high school teachers and teachers of many kindergartens, primary schools, and secondary schools that are piloting autonomy will not receive Tet bonuses for the year of the Snake 2025 according to Decree 73 of the Government.

The Hanoi Department of Education and Training has proposed that the city have a special mechanism to support the bonus fund according to Decree 73 for educational institutions that self-insure their regular expenses by participating in the pilot program of ordering educational services at prices. The Hanoi People's Committee has approved this proposal and submitted it to the People's Council for approval.

Source: https://dantri.com.vn/giao-duc/hon-5000-giao-vien-ha-noi-kien-nghi-duoc-huong-thu-nhap-tang-them-20250206122244205.htm