Latest regulations on how to calculate Lunar New Year's pay for teachers

To ensure security and safety during the Lunar New Year holiday, most schools have decided to assign teachers to work on-duty shifts during this time.

Up to now, most localities have announced the 2025 Lunar New Year holiday schedule to teachers and students. Depending on their own plans, each locality will have a different number of days off. In some places, students and teachers will have 9 or 10 days off, but in some places, the number of days off is up to 17 days.

Lam Dong and Hanoi are the two localities with the least number of Tet holidays for students and teachers in the country up to now, with 9 days. The locality with the most days off is Kon Tom with 17 days, lasting from January 24 to February 9 (ie December 25 to January 12).

Teachers have the right to refuse to work during Tet. (Illustration photo)

According to the regulations of the Department of Education and Training, schools assign teachers and workers to take turns being on duty at the unit during the Lunar New Year holiday. Many teachers and school staff wonder if they participate in the Lunar New Year 2024, will they receive overtime pay and how is the on-duty pay calculated?

According to Article 13 of the Law on Civil Servants, teachers on Tet holiday will receive full salary, there is no regulation requiring teachers to be on duty during Tet holiday. In case teachers participate in Tet holiday duty for 5 days, they will be paid overtime.

Teachers whose Tet duty schedule does not fall on the 5 Tet holidays according to regulations will only be considered administrative duty and will not receive overtime pay like the 5 Tet duty days.

Article 98 of the Labor Code stipulates that overtime and night work wages are as follows: Employees working overtime on holidays, Tet, and paid leave days are at least 300%, not including holiday, Tet, and paid leave wages for employees receiving daily wages.

Overtime pay for staff and teachers is calculated according to the following formula: Coefficient (salary + position allowance, teaching, seniority) x Basic salary (2,340,000 VND): Daily rate (22 days/8 hours) = Wage per working hour. Overtime pay x 300% (overtime pay).

For example, the total salary of cadres and teachers is from 13 million to 19 million VND/month, then the daily Tet duty pay (8 hours) is about 1.7 - 2.6 million VND (overtime pay only).

In addition, employees working at night are paid an additional amount of at least 30% of their wages calculated according to the unit price of wages or actual wages paid for the work of a normal working day.

Employees working overtime at night, in addition to being paid according to the above regulations, will also be paid an additional 20% of their salary calculated according to the salary unit price or salary according to the work done during the day on holidays and Tet.

An Nhi

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