Salary of long-tenured public sector teachers higher with the removal of seniority allowance according to the 2024 salary reform, correct?
Are the salaries of long-time public area teachers higher when abolishing the seniority allowance according to the 2024 salary reform?
According to Resolution 104/2023/QH15, a comprehensive reform of wage policy will be implemented according to Resolution 27-NQ/TW 2018 from July 1, 2024.
In Resolution 27-NQ/TW 2018, there are clear policies on allowances from July 1, 2024, as follows:
Abolish seniority allowance (except for the military, police, and cipher sector to ensure salary correlation with officials); leadership position allowance (as leadership positions in the political system will implement salary based on positions).
Concurrently, based on the provisions of Resolution 27-NQ-TW 2018, when paying salaries according to job positions, the 2024 salary table for public area teachers will be constructed as follows:
Construct one professional salary table according to the rank of officers and professional titles of public employees applied uniformly to officials and public employees not holding leadership positions.
In which, every rank of an officer, professional title of a public employee has multiple salary levels based on the principle:
+ The same level of job complexity will have the same salary; for working conditions higher than normal and job-specific incentives, policies will be implemented through occupational allowances;
+ Rearrange the groups of ranks and the number of levels within the ranks of officers and professional titles of public employees to encourage officials and public employees to improve their professional qualifications and expertise.
Appointment into the rank of officer or professional title of a public employee must be linked with the job position and the structure of the rank of officers, professional titles of public employees managed by the agency, organization, or unit managing the officials and public employees.
It is evident that long-time teachers will have different job complexities and salary levels compared to new teachers.
The Minister of Home Affairs stated that according to the wage reform plan starting July 1, 2024, the average general wage level for officials and public employees is expected to increase by 30% (including basic salary and allowances).
Additionally, starting from 2025, the Government of Vietnam will continue to adjust salary levels in the salary tables, increasing by an average of about 7% per year.
Therefore, after implementing wage reform, the seniority allowance will be abolished, and there will be a new salary table with salaries higher than the current ones (specific increases will need to await official regulatory documents).
Simultaneously, yearly from 2025, the salaries of long-time public area teachers will still increase by 7%.
Salaries of long-time public area teachers higher when abolishing the seniority allowance according to the 2024 salary reform? (Image from the Internet)
What factors are the new salary tables for teachers based on from July 1, 2024?
When implementing wage reform, the new salary table for teachers will be designed based on the determination of 05 factors according to Resolution 27-NQ/TW 2018 as follows:
- Abolish the statutory pay rate and current salary coefficients, construct a basic salary in the new salary table as a specific monetary amount.
- Uniformly implement employment contract policies according to the Labor Code 2019 (or service provision contract) for those doing supportive, serving jobs (requiring training below intermediate level), not applying the salary table for officials and public employees for these subjects.
- Determine the lowest salary for officials and public employees in the public area as the salary for jobs requiring intermediate training (level 1) not lower than the lowest salary of trained workers in the enterprise sector.
- Expand the salary relation to serve as the basis for determining specific salary levels in the salary system, gradually approaching the salary relation of the enterprise sector in line with the State's resource capacity.
- Perfect the policies for regular salary level increases and early salary level increases for officials and public employees and the armed forces according to the regulations of the new salary table.
How will allowance policies be rearranged to ensure the total allowance fund accounts for a maximum of 30% of the total salary fund?
Based on the spirit of Resolution 27-NQ/TW 2018, the allowance policies will be rearranged to ensure the total allowance fund accounts for a maximum of 30% of the total salary fund as follows:
- Continue to apply dual-role allowances; out-of-frame seniority allowances; regional allowances; job responsibility allowances; mobility allowances; security and defense service allowances; and special allowances for the armed forces (military, police, cipher sector).
- Merge occupational-specific incentive allowances, job responsibility allowances, and hazardous, dangerous allowances (collectively referred to as occupational allowances) applied to officials and public employees in professions or jobs with higher-than-normal labor conditions and appropriate State preferential policies (education and training, healthcare, judiciary, prosecution, civil judgment execution, inspection, auditing, customs, forest protection, market management, etc.).
Merge special allowances, attraction allowances, and long-term service subsidies in economically - socially particularly difficult regions into allowances for working in particularly difficult regions.
- Abolish seniority allowances (except for the military, police, and cipher sector to ensure salary correlation with officials); leadership position allowances (as leadership positions in the political system will implement salary based on positions); party, socio-political organization work allowances; civil service allowances (as they are included in the basic salary); hazardous, dangerous allowances (as labor conditions involving such factors are included in occupational-specific allowances).
- Stipulate new allowance policies by administrative unit classification for commune, district, and provincial levels.
- Consistently implement monthly allowance fund allocation for non-specialized workers at commune level, village, and residential group based on the regular expenditure rate of the People's Committee at the commune level; while stipulating the maximum number of non-specialized workers according to each type of commune, village, and residential group.
Based on that, the People's Committee at the commune level will submit to the People's Council at the same level for specific positions eligible for allowances in the direction that one position can undertake multiple tasks but must ensure the quality and effectiveness of the assigned work.
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