Vietnam: Support VND 800.000/month for early childhood education teachers working in people-founded preschool institutions located near an industrial park

Specifically, according to Article 10 of Decree No. 105/2020/NĐ-CP of Vietnam’s Government, persons eligible for benefit offered to early childhood education teachers working in people-founded or private preschool institutions located near an industrial park are early childhood education teachers currently working in people-founded or private preschool institutions granted the establishment license by the competent authority, operating under the law and located near an industrial park, and satisfying the following conditions:

- Meet the standards for the title of early childhood education teacher as prescribed by law;

- Work under a labor contract with the legal representative of the people-founded or private preschool institution;

- Directly provide care and education for students of a junior kindergarten class/senior kindergarten class at least 30% of the students of which are children of workers of the industrial park.

Benefit

- A teacher meeting the conditions stated above is entitled to at least VND 800.000 each month (eight hundred thousand dong each month).

- Number of teachers that may receive the benefit of public preschool institutions per existing regulations is applicable to people-founded or private preschool institutions.

- The teacher may receive this amount for every month in which they teach. This benefit shall be separated from the salary agreed upon between the head of the people-founded or private preschool institution and the teacher and not be included in the basis for calculation of social insurance, health insurance and unemployment insurance.

- The provincial People's Committee shall decide the benefit rate as suitable for the province’s budget and propose it to the People's Council at the same level for consideration and decision.

Application components

- List of teachers eligible for the benefit (made using Form No. 05 in Appendix enclosed with Decree No. 105/2020/NĐ-CP);

- Copy sent together with the authentic copy for comparison or certified true copy of each eligible teacher’s labor contract.

Application procedures

- In August of every year, the legal representative of each people-founded or private preschool institution shall send an application containing the components mentioned in Point a Clause 3 herein in person or by post or online to the bureau of education and training;

- Within 10 working days after the date on which the application from the preschool institution is received, the bureau of education and training shall appraise the application, consolidate list of teachers eligible for the benefit and send it to the finance authority at the same level, which shall propose it to the competent authority for approval according to regulations of the Law on State Budget;

- Within 07 working days starting from the date on which the documents from the bureau of education and training are received, the district-level People’s Committee shall approve of the list of teachers eligible for the benefit and notify the preschool institution of the result;

- After the list of teachers eligible for the benefit is approved by the competent authority, the preschool institution shall announce the list.

Note: The preschool institution shall take responsibility for receipt of funding for the benefit and directly provide the benefit for the eligible teachers in cash or via transfer. The benefit shall be provided twice in an academic year: the first time shall be in December of every year; and the benefit for the remaining months shall be provided in May of every year. If a teacher does not receive the benefit within the given time limit, they may receive it in the next benefit provision period.

If a teacher stops working at the institution, the institution shall report to the bureau of education and training, which shall propose cessation of benefit provision to the district-level People’s Committee.

View more details at Decree No. 105/2020/NĐ-CP of Vietnam’s Government, effective from November 11, 2020.

Le Vy

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