Which Official Subjects Will Lose the Communist Party’s Work Allowance When Implementing the 2024 Salary Reform from July 1, 2024?
Which officials will lose the Communist Party work allowance when the 2024 salary reform is implemented from July 01, 2024?
Currently, according to Guideline 05-HD/BTCTW of 2011, the officials entitled to Communist Party work allowances are as follows:
- Officials working at Party, socio-political organization agencies from the central to district levels, salaried by the state budget within the assigned payroll, salaried by the state budget, including:
+ Party's advisory and operational agencies: offices, organization, mass mobilization, propaganda, external relations, and Party committees under the central to district levels.
+ Agencies: Vietnam Fatherland Front, Vietnam General Confederation of Labor, Vietnam Farmers' Union, Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union, Vietnam Women's Union, and Vietnam Veterans' Association from central to district levels.
+ The Steering Committees' agencies: Northwest, Central Highlands, Southwest.
- Officials working in inspection committees at all levels who are not yet entitled to and not eligible for professional responsibility allowances and seniority allowances.
Based on the Central Executive Committee's directive in Resolution 27-NQ/TW of 2018, which includes:
d) Rearrange the current allowance policies, ensuring the total allowance fund accounts for a maximum of 30% of the total salary fund
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- Abolish professional seniority allowance (except for military, police, and cipher to ensure wage correlation with officials); leadership position allowance (as leadership positions within the political system are implemented based on position-based salary); Communist Party, and socio-political organization work allowance; public service allowance (as it has been included in the basic salary level); toxic and dangerous work allowances (as toxic, dangerous working conditions have been factored into occupational allowances).
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Thus, when implementing the salary reform, officials who are currently entitled to the Communist Party allowance as per Guideline 05-HD/BTCTW of 2011 will no longer receive this type of allowance as the Communist Party work allowance is one of the allowances to be abolished in Resolution 27-NQ/TW of 2018.
Which officials will lose the Communist Party work allowance when the 2024 salary reform is implemented from July 01, 2024?
Current Communist Party work allowance and ineligible individuals
(*) Current Communist Party work allowance
According to Guideline 05-HD/BTCTW of 2011, the Party work allowance rate is 30% of the current salary plus leadership position allowance and extra seniority allowance (if any). The current Party work allowance can be understood according to the formula:
| Party work allowance = [Current salary + Position allowance + Seniority allowance (if any)] x 30% || --- |
In which:
- Current salary = Coefficient x Statutory pay rate
The coefficient is stipulated in the appendix issued together with Decree 204/2004/ND-CP.
The statutory pay rate from July 01, 2023, is 1,800,000 VND/month as stipulated in Decree 24/2023/ND-CP.
- Leadership position allowance: implemented according to Circular 02/2005/TT-BNV with the allowance coefficient also issued in Decree 204/2004/ND-CP.
Leadership position allowance = Coefficient x Statutory pay rate
- The extra seniority allowance is stipulated in Circular 04/2005/TT-BNV. It is 5% of the final salary scale salary. From the fourth year onward, each year meeting the two criteria for the extra seniority allowance gets an additional 1%.
(*) Individuals ineligible for the Communist Party work allowance
- Officials, civil servants, and workers specializing in Party, socio-political organization work within state agencies, units, armed forces.
- Officials and public employees and workers working according to labor contract policies in public service providers of the Communist Party; enterprises, public service providers of party agencies, and socio-political organizations.
- Officials, civil servants waiting to retire according to Decree 67/2010/ND-CP, dated June 15, 2010, of the Government of Vietnam on policies for officials not old enough for re-election or reappointment to positions, titles within the Communist Party of Vietnam, state, and socio-political organizations.
- Officials, civil servants holding positions of elections or appointments with a salary of 9.70 or higher or with a leadership position allowance coefficient of 1.20 or higher.
- Officials, civil servants in inspection committees at all levels who are receiving professional responsibility allowances or both professional responsibility and seniority allowances.
- Individuals with salaries ranked according to the cipher rank.
New salary scale for officials when implementing salary reform?
According to the Central Executive Committee's directive in Resolution 27-NQ/TW of 2018, officials will have a position-based salary scale applied to officials in the political system from the central to communal levels according to the principle:
(1) The position's salary must reflect its rank within the political system; holding a leadership position entitles one to the salary for that position, if a person holds multiple positions, they receive the highest position-based salary; equivalent leadership positions get equivalent salaries; the higher-ranking leadership position must be remunerated higher than that of a lower-ranking one;
(2) Prescribe a position salary for each type of equivalent position; do not classify ministries and central authorities, boards, committees, and their equivalents at the central level when constructing the central-level salary scale; do not differentiate between different position salaries for the same leadership role by administrative unit classification when applying salary policy; Differentiating equivalent leadership positions within the political system for designing the salary table is decided by the Politburo after reporting to the Central Executive Committee.
The new salary for officials is constructed according to the formula:
| Salary for officials = Basic salary + Allowance (if any) + Bonus (if any) || --- |
In which:
+ Basic salary (approximately 70% of the total salary fund)
+ Allowances (approximately 30% of the total salary fund)
+ Bonus (the bonus fund is about 10% of the total annual salary fund, excluding allowances).
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