What is the Monetary Award for the First-Class Labor Medal According to the Latest 2024 Regulation?
What is the reward amount for the First-Class Labor Medal under the latest 2024 regulations?
Article 55 of Decree 98/2023/ND-CP stipulates the reward amounts for various medals as follows:
Reward amounts for various medals
1. Individuals awarded or posthumously awarded various medals are awarded a certificate, a frame, a medal along with a reward amount as follows:
a) “Gold Star Medal”: 46.0 times the statutory pay rate;
b) “Ho Chi Minh Medal”: 30.5 times the statutory pay rate;
c) “First-Class Independence Medal”, “First-Class Military Merit Medal”: 15.0 times the statutory pay rate;
d) “Second-Class Independence Medal”, “Second-Class Military Merit Medal”: 12.5 times the statutory pay rate;
e) “Third-Class Independence Medal”, “Third-Class Military Merit Medal”: 10.5 times the statutory pay rate;
f) “First-Class Labor Medal”, “First-Class Order of Victory”, “First-Class National Defense Medal”: 9.0 times the statutory pay rate;
g) “Second-Class Labor Medal”, “Second-Class Order of Victory”, “Second-Class National Defense Medal”, “National Great Unity Medal”: 7.5 times the statutory pay rate;
h) “Third-Class Labor Medal”, “Third-Class Order of Victory”, “Third-Class National Defense Medal”, and “Bravery Medal”: 4.5 times the statutory pay rate.
2. Organizations awarded various medals are awarded certificates, frames, medals along with a reward amount double the amount for individuals as specified in Clause 1 of this Article.
Thus, the reward amount for an individual receiving a First-Class Labor Medal is 9.0 times the statutory pay rate. For organizations, the reward amount is double that for individuals.
The current statutory pay rate is 1,800,000 VND/month (According to Clause 2, Article 3 of Decree 24/2023/ND-CP).
However, according to Resolution 27/NQ-TW 2018 from July 1, 2024, with the implementation of wage reform, the statutory pay rate will be abolished. Therefore, new guidelines regarding reward amounts may be issued in the near future.
Individuals and organizations awarded various medals are awarded certificates, frames, and medals.
What is the reward amount for the First-Class Labor Medal under the latest 2024 regulations? (Image from the Internet)
Standards for awarding or posthumously awarding the First-Class Labor Medal to individuals with long-term contributions in 2024?
According to Clause 1, Article 16 of Decree 98/2023/ND-CP, the First-Class Labor Medal is awarded or posthumously awarded to individuals with long-term contributions in various agencies, organizations, units, and who meet one of the following criteria:
- Recognized as a pre-uprising cadre and has held one of the following positions: Deputy Department Head, Deputy Director General, Deputy Head of a provincial-level sector or equivalent position;
- Participated continuously in both the resistance war against the French colonialists and the resistance war against the US imperialists, and held one of the following positions:
Deputy Head of a central committee of the Communist Party, Deputy Minister or equivalent position, Deputy Secretary of the provincial/municipal Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial/Municipal People's Council, People’s Committee under central authority, Deputy President of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front, Deputy Head of central socio-political organizations.
Director General, Standing Member of the provincial/municipal Party Committee, Deputy Chairman of the People’s Council, People’s Committee, President of the Fatherland Front Committee of provinces and municipalities under central authority for 10 years or more;
- Participated continuously in the resistance war against the US imperialists or in the construction and defense of the Fatherland, and held one of the following positions:
+ Minister or equivalent;
+ Deputy Minister or equivalent for 5 years or more;
+ Director General or equivalent from 8 to under 10 years;
+ Deputy Director General or equivalent from 10 to under 15 years;
+ Director General or equivalent for 15 years or more.
Under what circumstances is the decision to award titles, forms of commendation revoked, and the rewards and bonuses recovered?
According to Clause 2, Article 93 of the Law on Emulation and Commendation 2022, decisions to award emulation titles and forms of commendation are revoked, and rewards and bonuses are recovered in the following cases:
- There is fraudulent behavior in declaring achievements to be awarded emulation titles and forms of commendation;
- Providing false information or forging documents to recommend the award of emulation titles and forms of commendation;
- Appraisal, approval, and recommendation of emulation titles and forms of commendation contrary to the law;
- There are conclusions, decisions, or judgments from competent authorities that the persons awarded emulation titles, forms of commendation have violations or shortcomings leading to not meeting the criteria for awarding emulation titles and forms of commendation within the achievement consideration period or concerning the works and projects as the basis for awarding the prize.
Additionally:
Individuals awarded state honorary titles who are convicted with a legally effective judgment of the court and subjected to fixed-term imprisonment, life imprisonment, or the death penalty are stripped of state honorary titles, except in the following cases.
Individuals awarded the title “Hero of Labor” during the resistance period, “Hero of the People's Armed Forces”, “Vietnamese Heroic Mother” who are convicted with a legally effective judgment of the court for crimes infringing upon national security or other crimes subject to life imprisonment or the death penalty, or who participate in activities opposing the policies of the Communist Party and State, desertion, betrayal, or surrendering to the enemy resulting in the termination of preferential policies according to the law on preferential treatment for people with contributions to the revolution, will be stripped of state honorary titles.
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