Cases in which public employees working at public medical facilities are eligible for preferential profession allowances policies
In which case are public employees working at public medical facilities eligible for preferential allowances?
According to the provisions of Article 1 of Decree 56/2011/ND-CP on scope and targeted subjects as follows:
Scope and Targeted Subjects
1. This decree prescribes preferential allowance policies according to professions for officials and public employees, commune health workers (working under contract policies according to Decision No. 58/TTg dated February 3, 1994, of the Prime Minister of the Government of Vietnam stipulating several issues on organization and policies for grassroots healthcare) directly employed in medical specializations; officials and public employees working in management and non-medical specializations in specialized departments covering HIV/AIDS, leprosy, tuberculosis, mental health, pathology, forensic medicine (hereinafter referred to as officials and public employees) in public healthcare institutions.
2. This decree does not apply to professional medical officers and public employees of the armed forces.
Public employees working at public medical facilities are eligible for preferential allowance policies if they work under contract policies according to Decision 58/TTg of 1994 and fall under the following categories:
- Public employees directly working in medical specializations.- Public employees working in management and non-medical specializations in specialized departments covering HIV/AIDS, leprosy, tuberculosis, mental health, pathology, forensic medicine.
In which case are public employees working at public medical facilities eligible for preferential allowances?
Which public employees are eligible for the 100% preferential allowance?
Based on Clause 7, Article 3 of Decree 56/2011/ND-CP supplemented by Article 1 of Decree 05/2023/ND-CP, the 100% preferential allowance applies to the following public employees:
- Public employees regularly and directly engaged in preventive medicine, including border medical quarantine.- Public employees working in medical specializations at commune-level health stations, polyclinics, maternity homes, district, town, district-level city health centers, district, town, district-level city hospitals, and hospitals under cities directly under the central government.
*Note: The 100% preferential allowance applies from January 1, 2022, to December 31, 2023:
Public employees engaged in preventive medicine and grassroots health are eligible for the 100% preferential allowance and cannot receive other allowances where a public employee is subject to multiple preferential levels.
Is it necessary to merge the preferential allowance, occupational responsibility allowance, and hazardous-duty allowance when reforming wages?
At the closing session of the Vietnam Socio-Economic Forum 2023 held in Hanoi on September 19, 2023, National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue emphasized the need to promptly conduct a comprehensive wage policy reform in 2024.
"This is a reform, not a regular salary increase. If there are no changes, the implementation time can be from July 1, 2024."
Additionally, the localities have accumulated funds for wage reform amounting to VND 208,457 billion. Hence, the budget surplus is VND 263,000 billion to carry out wage reform from 2024.
One noteworthy point in the wage reform effective from July 1, 2024, is the abolition of the seniority allowance for officials. According to Resolution 27-NQ/TW of 2018, current allowance policies will be rearranged, ensuring that the total allowance budget accounts for a maximum of 30% of the total wage fund, implemented as follows:
- Continue to apply allowances for concurrent positions; above-frame seniority allowances; regional allowances; job responsibility allowances; mobility allowances; allowances for security, national defense service and special characteristics allowances for armed forces (military, police, and cipher).
- Merge preferential allowances, occupational responsibility allowances, and hazardous-duty allowances (commonly called occupational allowances) applicable to officials and public employees of professions or jobs with higher than normal working conditions and appropriate preferential policies of the State (education and training, healthcare, judiciary, prosecution, civil judgment enforcement, inspection, examination, auditing, customs, forest protection, market management, etc.). Merge special allowances, attraction allowances, and long-term service benefits for working in areas with exceptionally difficult socio-economic conditions into allowances for working in exceptionally difficult areas.
- Abolish the seniority allowance (except for the military, police, and cipher to ensure wage correlation with officials); leadership position allowances (as leadership titles in the political system are assigned positional wages); party, political-social organizations work allowances; public service allowances (as they have been included in the basic salary); hazardous-duty allowances (as hazardous and dangerous working conditions have been included in occupational allowances).
- Newly stipulate allowance policies according to the classification of administrative units at the commune, district, and provincial levels.
- Consistently implement the fund-based monthly allowance scheme for non-specialized personnel at the commune level, in villages, and residential groups based on the regular expenditure rate of the commune-level People's Committees; at the same time, stipulate the maximum number of non-specialized personnel for each type of commune, village, residential group.
Based on this, the commune-level People's Committee will submit to the People's Council at the same level for specific positions entitled to allowances in the direction that one position can take multiple jobs but must ensure the quality and effectiveness of the assigned work.
Thus, when implementing wage reform according to Resolution 27, the preferential allowance, occupational responsibility allowance, and hazardous-duty allowance will be merged into one common allowance called occupational allowance.
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