National Assembly officially passed the implementation of the 2024 salary reform from July 01, 2024, according to Resolution 27.
National Assembly Officially Passes Wage Reform Implementation 2024 from July 1, 2024 under Resolution 27
On November 10, with a majority of delegates in favor (94.33%), the National Assembly passed the Resolution on the state budget estimate for 2024.
To be specific, the Resolution states:
"From July 1, 2024, implement a comprehensive wage policy reform under Resolution 27-NQ/TW 2018 of the Seventh Plenary Session of the 12th Central Committee."
The funding for wage reform implementation will be ensured from the accumulated wage reform funds of the central budget, local budgets, and a portion allocated in the state budget expenditure estimate.
Simultaneously, adjust pensions, social insurance benefits, monthly allowances, preferential treatment allowances for people with meritorious services, and certain social welfare policies associated with the statutory pay rate.
Thus, the National Assembly has officially approved the wage reform implementation date from July 1, 2024, under Resolution 27-NQ/TW 2018.
National Assembly Officially Passes Wage Reform Implementation 2024 from July 1, 2024 under Resolution 27
How Will the 05 New Wage Scales Be Implemented from July 1, 2024?
Based on the content of Resolution 27-NQ/TW 2018, 05 new wage scales will be developed according to job positions applicable to officials and public employees and the armed forces when implementing wage reform from July 1, 2024, as follows:
02 wage scales for officials and public employees:
- Develop 01 wage scale for positions applicable to officials and public employees holding leadership positions (elected and appointed) in the political system from the central to grassroots levels, based on the principles:
+ The position wage must reflect the hierarchy in the political system; leadership positions receive corresponding position wages; if one person holds multiple positions, they receive the highest position wage; equivalent leadership positions receive the same position wage; the position wage of higher-level leaders must be higher than that of lower-level leaders;
+ Provide one position wage for each equivalent type of position; do not classify ministries and central authorities, committees, and equivalent units at the central level when developing the central level position wage scale; do not differentiate position wages for the same leadership title by administrative unit classification at the local level but implement by allowance policies. The classification of equivalent leadership positions in the political system to design the position wage scale is decided by the Politburo after reporting to the Central Executive Committee.
- Develop 01 professional and occupational wage scale according to the official grades and public employee professional titles applicable to officials and public employees not holding leadership titles; each official grade, public employee professional title has multiple wage levels based on the principle: Work of equal complexity gets equal wages; better working conditions and professional incentives are implemented through professional allowance policies; reorganize the groups of official grades and the number of levels within the official grades, public employee professional titles, encouraging officials and public employees to enhance their professional qualifications.
Appointments to official grades or public employee professional titles must be linked to job positions and the structure of official grades, public employee professional titles managed by agencies, organizations, and units.
03 wage scales for the armed forces:
- Develop 3 new wage scales for the armed forces, including:
+ 01 wage scale for military officers, professional police officers, and non-commissioned officers (according to positions, titles, and military ranks or grades);
+ 01 wage scale for professional soldiers, technical specialists in the police force;
+ 01 wage scale for defense workers, and police workers (maintaining the relative wage correlation of the armed forces with administrative officials as currently).
Guiding Perspectives on Implementing Wage Reform under Resolution 27
In Resolution 27-NQ/TW 2018, the guiding perspectives for implementing wage reform are mentioned as follows:
- Wage policy is a particularly important policy in the socio-economic policy system. Wages must truly be the main source of income ensuring the livelihoods of wage earners and their families; proper wages are an investment in human resource development, a motivation to enhance labor productivity and work efficiency, contributing significantly to social progress and justice, ensuring socio-political stability; promoting and enhancing growth quality and sustainable development.
- Wage policy reform must ensure comprehensiveness, systematicness, synchronization, inheriting and promoting advantages, effectively overcoming limitations and inadequacies of the current wage policy; adhere to the principle of distribution according to labor and objective economic laws of the market; take labor productivity increase as the basis for wage increases; meet the requirements of international integration; have a roadmap suitable to the economic-social development conditions and the country's resources.
- In the public sector, the state pays wages for officials and public employees and the armed forces based on job positions, titles, and leadership positions, appropriate with state resources and public service revenue, ensuring a reasonable correlation with the labor market wages; implementing appropriate reward and incentive policies according to labor productivity, motivating to enhance work quality, efficiency, public ethics, and professional ethics, contributing to purifying and enhancing the effectiveness of the political system.
- In the business sector, wages are the price of labor, formed based on agreements between employees and employers under market mechanisms managed by the state. The state stipulates the minimum wage as the lowest floor to protect vulnerable workers, and one of the bases for wage agreements and labor market regulation. Wage distribution is based on labor outcomes and business efficiency, ensuring harmonious, stable, and progressive labor relationships within enterprises.
- Wage policy reform is an objective requirement, an important task, requiring high political determination in building the socialist rule-of-law state and perfecting the market economy institution oriented to socialism; promoting administrative reform; innovating and restructuring the streamlined political system for effective and efficient operation; innovating organizational and management systems, enhancing the quality and efficiency of public service providers.
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