Who are the subjects of the new salary scale according to the professional expertise of officials and public employees?
Who are the subjects of application of the new salary scale according to the professional and job duties of officials and public employees?
The Chairman of the National Assembly has signed and issued Resolution 104/2023/QH15 on the 2024 State Budget Estimates, which stipulates the implementation of comprehensive reform of salary policy according to Resolution 27-NQ/TW in 2018.
From July 1, 2024, the statutory pay rate and current salary coefficient will be abolished, transitioning from the old salary scale to the new salary levels, building and applying a basic salary determined by specific amounts according to the job position in the new salary scales.
In which, constructing one professional and job duty salary scale according to the officials' positions and the public employee's professional titles to commonly apply to officials and public employees who do not hold leadership positions, ensuring that it is not lower than their current salary; each officials' grade, public employee's professional title has multiple salary levels according to the principles:
+ The same level of job complexity will have the same salary level;
+ Higher than normal working conditions and occupational incentives will be implemented through occupational allowance policies;
+ Reorganizing the group of grades and the number of levels in the grades of officials, professional titles of public employees, encouraging officials and public employees to enhance their professional and job duties.
The appointment to an officials' grade or a public employee's professional title must be tied to the job position and the structure of the officials' grades, professional titles of public employees managed by the agency, organization, or unit employing officials and public employees.
Thus, the new salary scale according to the professional and job duties of officials and public employees will be applied to officials and public employees who do not hold leadership positions.
Who are the subjects of application of the new salary scale according to the professional and job duties of officials and public employees? (Image from the Internet)
What is the mechanism for managing salaries and incomes after implementing salary reforms for officials and public employees?
According to the provisions of Resolution 27/NQ-TW in 2018, the salary and income management mechanism after implementing salary reforms is as follows:
- The head of the agency, organization, or unit can use the salary fund and annual allocated regular expenditures to hire experts, scientists, and particularly talented individuals to perform the tasks of the agency, organization, or unit and decide the corresponding payment for their services.
- The head of the agency, organization, or unit can develop a policy to periodically reward the subjects under their management, linking it with the assessment outcomes and rating the completion degree of each individual's tasks.
- Expand the pilot application mechanism to some provinces and cities under central control that have self-balanced budgets and ensure sufficient resources to implement salary reforms and social security policies, allowing additional average income not exceeding 0.8 times the basic salary fund of officials and public employees within the management scope.
- Public service units that self-assure regular expenditures and investments, or self-assure regular expenditures and other state financial funds outside the state budget, will implement the salary autonomy mechanism according to their performance like enterprises.
- Public service units partially covering their own recurrent expenditures and public service providers funded entirely by the state budget for recurrent expenditures will apply the same salary policies as officials.
Salaries will be based on the job position, the professional title of public employees decided by the head of the public service provider, based on the revenue sources (from state budget allocations and the unit's revenues), labor productivity, work quality, and efficiency following the unit’s salary payment regulations, not lower than the salary policies prescribed by the State.
What are the specific factors for designing the 5 new salary scales when implementing salary reforms from July 1, 2024?
According to point c, sub-item 3.1, Section 3, Part II of Resolution 27/NQ-TW in 2018, the specific factors for designing the new salary scales when implementing salary reforms are:
- Abolishing the statutory pay rate and current salary coefficient, building a basic salary determined by specific amounts in the new salary scale.
- Uniformly implementing labor contract policies under the Labor Code (or service provision contracts) for individuals performing clerical and service duties (requiring sub-college level education), not applying the salary scales of officials and public employees to these subjects.
- Determining the lowest salary level of officials and public employees in the public sector as the salary level for work requiring vocational training (level 1) not lower than the minimum wage for trained laborers in the enterprise sector.
- Expanding the salary relationship framework to determine the specific salary level within the salary scale system, gradually approaching the salary relationship of the enterprise sector in line with state resources.
- Perfecting the policies for regular salary increases and early salary increases for officials and public employees and armed forces in accordance with the new salary scale regulations.
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