From July 01, 2024, what are the salary levels for officials and public employees without leadership positions in the salary reform?
From July 01, 2024, how many pay grades will the salary table for officials and public employees not holding leadership positions have when the wage reform is implemented?
Based on Point b, Subsection 3.1, Section 3, Part II of Resolution 27-NQ/TW 2018, the content of wage reform for officials and public employees not holding leadership positions is as follows:
Reform Content
3.1. For officials and public employees and the armed forces (public sector)
b) Develop and promulgate a new salary system based on the job position, title, and leadership position, replacing the current salary system; transition from the old salary to the new salary, ensuring it is not lower than the currently received salary, including:
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- Develop a professional salary table based on the civil servant ranks and public employee professional titles to be applied universally to officials and public employees not holding leadership positions; each civil servant rank, public employee professional title will have multiple salary grades based on principles: The same level of job complexity will have the same salary; higher-than-usual working conditions and professional incentives will be implemented through industry-specific allowance policies; reorganize the rank groups and the number of grades within the civil servant ranks, public employee professional titles, encouraging officials and public employees to improve their professional qualifications. The appointment to the civil servant rank or public employee professional title must be linked to the job position and the structure of the civil servant rank, professional title managed by the agencies, organizations, and units employing officials and public employees.
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Therefore, according to the above-mentioned content, when the wage reform is implemented from July 01, 2024, the salary table for officials and public employees not holding leadership positions will be constructed based on professional expertise according to the civil servant rank and public employee professional title.
The salary table for officials and public employees not holding leadership positions will have multiple salary grades for each civil servant rank, public employee professional title based on the following principles:
- The same level of job complexity will have the same salary;
- Higher-than-usual working conditions and professional incentives will be implemented through industry-specific allowance policies;
- Reorganize the rank groups and the number of grades within the civil servant ranks, public employee professional titles, encouraging officials and public employees to improve their professional qualifications.
From July 01, 2024, how many pay grades will the salary table for officials and public employees not holding leadership positions have when the wage reform is implemented?
What is the roadmap for wage reform according to Resolution 27?
Based on Resolution 27-NQ/TW 2018 the roadmap for wage reform is outlined as follows:
From 2021 to 2025 and with a vision to 2030
For the public sector
- From 2021, apply uniform new wage policies for officials and public employees, and the armed forces throughout the entire political system.
- In 2021, the lowest salary for officials and public employees will be equivalent to the average minimum wage across regions in the enterprise sector.
- Periodically increase the salary level in line with the consumer price index, economic growth rate, and state budget capacity.
- By 2025, the lowest salary for officials and public employees will be higher than the average minimum wage across regions in the enterprise sector.
- By 2030, the lowest salary for officials and public employees will be equal to or higher than the minimum wage of the highest region in the enterprise sector.
For the enterprise sector
- From 2021, the State periodically adjusts the regional minimum wage based on recommendations from the National Wage Council. Enterprises implement wage policies based on negotiations and agreements between employers and employees and their collective representatives; the State does not directly intervene in enterprise wage policies.
- Manage labor and wages within state-owned enterprises through a mechanism that ties salary expenses with business tasks until 2025, and moving towards contracting business tasks of enterprises by 2030.
What are the guiding principles for wage reform?
Resolution 27-NQ/TW 2018 outlines the guiding principles for wage reform as follows:
- Wage policy is a particularly important policy of the socio-economic policy system. Wages must truly be the main source of income ensuring the livelihood of workers and their families; proper wage payment is an investment in human resource development, creating motivation to improve labor productivity and work efficiency, contributing significantly to social progress and justice, ensuring political and social stability; promoting and enhancing the quality of growth and sustainable development.
- Wage policy reform must ensure overall, systematic, and synchronized characteristics, inheriting and promoting advantages, effectively overcoming the limitations and inadequacies of the current wage policy; adhere to the principle of distribution according to labor and the objective economic market rules, using labor productivity increases as the basis for wage increases; meet the requirements of international integration; have a roadmap suitable to the economic and social development conditions and the country’s resources.
- In the public sector, the State pays wages to officials and public employees and the armed forces based on job positions, titles, and leadership roles, in line with the State’s resources and revenue from public service activities, ensuring reasonable correlation with wages in the labor market; implement commendable remuneration and reward policies according to labor productivity, creating motivation to improve work quality, efficiency, public ethics, and professional ethics, contributing to the purification and enhancement of the effectiveness of the political system.
- In the enterprise sector, wages are the price of labor, formed based on agreements between employees and employers following market mechanisms managed by the State. The State regulates the minimum wage as the lowest floor level to protect vulnerable workers while serving as a basis for wage negotiations and labor market regulation. Wage distribution is based on labor results and business efficiency, ensuring harmonious, stable, and progressive labor relations within enterprises.
- Wage policy reform is an objective requirement, an important task, requiring high political determination in building a socialist rule-of-law State and perfecting the socialist-oriented market economy; promoting administrative reform; innovating, organizing, and streamlining the apparatus of the political system with effective and clear operation, streamlining the payroll; innovating the organization and management system, enhancing the quality and efficiency of public service providers.
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