This afternoon (October 16), the National Assembly Standing Committee gave opinions on issues related to budgetary finance, including the roadmap for reforming salary policies from July 1, 2024.
According to the Government's proposal, the salary reform roadmap will be implemented from July 1, 2024. The Government will synchronously implement the contents of the new salary regime according to Resolution No. 27/2018 on reforming salary policy for cadres, civil servants, public employees, armed forces and employees in enterprises.
Specifically, the regulation stipulates that the lowest wage in the public sector is equal to the average lowest wage in the business sector.
Along with that is expanding the salary relationship from the current 1-2.34-10 to 1-2.68-12; rearranging allowance regimes and restructuring the ratio between basic salary (70%) and allowance (30%); supplementing the bonus fund with 10% of the basic salary fund.
After 2024, the Government will continue to adjust the salary levels in the salary tables by an average of 7%/year (to compensate for inflation and improve somewhat according to GDP growth) until the lowest salary level reaches or is higher than the lowest salary level of region 1 (the highest region) of the business sector.
With this new wage policy, the total estimated additional budget demand from the budget in the 2024-2026 period is more than VND499 trillion. Of which, the expenditure for wage reform is VND470 trillion, pension adjustment is VND11.1 trillion and preferential allowance for meritorious people is VND18 trillion.
This content was discussed at the 8th Central Conference and assigned to the Politburo to direct the Government Party Personnel Committee to complete the report to submit to the 6th session of the 15th National Assembly (scheduled to open on October 23) for consideration and decision.
Increase salaries to retain civil servants, overcome "one foot in, one foot out"
Speaking with VietNamNet, National Assembly delegate Ta Thi Yen - Deputy Head of the Delegation Affairs Committee (under the National Assembly Standing Committee) highly appreciated the Government's efforts to implement salary reform and increase salaries for officials, civil servants, and public employees from July 1, 2024.
According to delegate Ta Thi Yen, our country has undergone four salary policy reforms in 1960, 1985, 1993 and 2003. The issue of salary reform continued to be raised at many Central conferences and received attention and conclusions from many Central Committees. Thanks to that, salaries in the public sector of cadres, civil servants, public employees and armed forces have been gradually improved.
However, it must be recognized that the current wage policy still has many limitations and shortcomings. The wage policy in the public sector is still complicated, the design of the payroll system is not suitable for job positions, titles and leadership positions; it is still heavily egalitarian, does not ensure life, does not promote talent, and does not create motivation to improve the quality and efficiency of workers.
It is noteworthy that the current salary calculation formula based on the basic salary multiplied by the coefficient does not clearly show the real value of the salary. Meanwhile, there are too many types of allowances and many incomes outside of salary, causing unreasonable things...
Resolution 27 of the 12th Central Committee was issued to overcome these shortcomings. In it, the Central Committee affirmed that “salary must truly be the main source of income to ensure the lives of workers and their families.”
“This is the aspiration of millions of cadres, civil servants and public employees across the country. Therefore, despite the difficult economic situation, the Government's efforts to ensure sufficient resources to implement the salary reform roadmap from July 1, 2024 are appropriate and very commendable,” said delegate Ta Thi Yen.
According to the Deputy Head of the Delegation Affairs Committee, we have postponed the reform time at least twice since 2020, and we cannot miss any more deadlines. And the important thing is that recently, with the determination of the Ministry of Home Affairs, ministries, branches and localities have streamlined their apparatus, arranged administrative units, and reduced staff, which helps save resources and appropriately reduces the number of people receiving salaries from the state budget.
"That is an important premise for implementing salary reform," delegate Ta Thi Yen emphasized.
Especially in the recent and current context where many capable officials, civil servants and public employees have switched jobs from the public sector to the private sector, salary reform will motivate them to be interested in working, promote increased labor productivity and stay with the public sector.
"We must accept competition in the labor market to attract "talents" for the state apparatus and salary policy plays a very important role in the general system of policies for civil servants and public employees," the female delegate from Dien Bien province emphasized.
In addition, according to Ms. Yen, implementing salary reform also contributes to overcoming the current situation of "one foot in, one foot out" among a number of cadres, civil servants and public employees.
'Small state, big society' ensures sustainable wage reform resources
After the interview with Minister of Home Affairs Pham Thi Thanh Tra on this content, many readers of VietNamNet also expressed their support for the Government's efforts in preparing conditions to implement the salary reform roadmap from July 1, 2024.
Reader Hung Viet Luong believes that increasing salaries for the public sector is a very correct policy. But how to increase salaries and how much to increase them so that qualified and dedicated officials and civil servants continue to stay and work according to their functions and duties of state management and public services is the issue that needs to be discussed.
When the government system and state management mechanism operate on the basis of laws, decrees and circulars, they need to be developed and not interfere deeply in business operations as well as people's social lives.
The model of "small state, big society" can significantly reduce the number of people receiving salaries from the budget, ensuring resources to pay reasonable salaries to officials, civil servants and public employees.
Reader Hieu Thuan Nguyen Chau also welcomed the need to increase salaries for civil servants and public employees so that they can live on their salaries. This would help fight against harassment, corruption, and bribery.
This reader believes that although the budget of 500 trillion VND is very large, it is not too difficult to balance. If the government increases support for domestic enterprises with reasonable and open policies, it will increase budget revenue many times over. Doing so will not only be enough to pay for salary increases but also be able to invest in infrastructure and improve people's lives.
Reader Buu Lam agrees that continuing to merge communes and districts, streamlining the apparatus and fighting corruption and waste will create more money to partially compensate for salary increases for cadres, civil servants and public employees, because "if you eat smart, you will be full, if you dress smart, you will be warm".
Home Minister answers the question 'where will the money come from to increase salaries' from July 1, 2024
The Minister of Home Affairs said that it is expected that when implementing the new salary policy, increasing salaries for officials, civil servants and public employees from July 1, 2024, the budget will need to spend an additional nearly 500,000 billion VND in the 2024 - 2026 period.
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