Vietnam: Guidance on evaluation of work complexity in state-owned enterprises

According to Circular No. 17/2015/TT-BLĐTBXH of the Ministry of Labor - Invalids and Social Affairs of Vietnam, the evaluation of work complexity in state-owned one member limited liability company is guided as follows:

- Companies shall evaluate the work complexity of types of labor by the scoring method of factors, including: time or level of training, responsibility, skills, time of experience accumulation, influence degree of work, product or management decision, labor conditions, attraction of profession, work or other factors (if any) in accordance with the actual condition of the company.

- Based on the work complexity degree of types of labor specified in Annex 1 issued with this Circular, the companies shall define proportion of factors reflecting the work complexity degree for each type of labor of the companies. For the working factors and conditions which are defined in Article 6 of this Circular.

- After defining the proportion of factors specified in Clause 2 Article 5 of this Circular, the companies shall develop specific criteria of each factor and evaluate the work complexity through card for the employees to score themselves or use of professional approach for scoring; aggregate the scoring result, form the complexity degree classification table of job and profession titles; compare, balance and adjust score to ensure the rational relation between the types of labor.

The companies may use other methods to evaluate the work complexity but must ensure the correlation between their work complexity with the work complexity degree specified in Annex 1 issued with this Circular.

Besides, Circular No. 17/2015/TT-BLĐTBXH also stipulates job and profession titles in state-owned one member limited liability company as follows:

- Companies shall calculate and review all job and profession titles of their employees directly involved in production and business, professional employees, executors and managers.

- Companies shall analyze, evaluate and modify inappropriate job and profession titles; supplement name of new job and profession titles; classify and group the similar job and profession titles into group of job and profession titles.

- Companies shall compare their job and profession titles with those as classified by the State. Where the companies do not have job and profession titles or such job and profession titles are different from those as classified by the State, they have to supplement, adjust or report to the competent authorities for supplementation or modification accordingly.

View more details at Circular No. 17/2015/TT-BLĐTBXH of the Ministry of Labor - Invalids and Social Affairs of Vietnam, effective from June 10, 2015.

Le Hai

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