Salary reform plan to be submitted in April

VietNamNet Bridge - The Ministry of Home Affairs has been coordinating with other related governmental agencies to accomplish the Proposal on Salary Reform to submit at the fifth Meeting of the Communist Party of the Central Committee of Vietnam by April. 

Deputy Minister of Home Affairs Tran Anh Tuan revealed that the mechanism for increased income for public administrative agencies, would be renewed to boost the working effectiveness and living standard for employees. This is a new point in the proposal. 

The press conference on the proposal was held on February 9th. 

“The mechanism on finance and service cost for public administrative system would boost the development of the employees in the system. However, the system has been dealing with numerous issues such as hospital charges and school fees related directly to the nation wide people. If the attitude of the society about the finance mechanism is unchanged, it is difficult to raise the salary in the public administrative system,” said Cuong – Director General of Department of Salary of the Ministry.  

Currently, employees in the public administrative system are still receiving the salary from state budget. In the future, the State will contract with such agencies about the salary sources and stop providing the salary budge, said Cuong. 

The Ministry of Finance will draft a separate plan on this finance mechanism. Other related ministries such as education, health, and culture will join in with the Ministry of Finance in drawing a roadmap for their own public administrative agencies. 

Many conferences and workshops on this proposal have been organized and received a lot of recommendations from specialists. Many opinions agreed that the salary level of civil servants remained too low. 

At the workshop on salary reform for the period of 2013 – 2020 held on December 20th in Ho Chi Minh City, three plans on salary were discussed: equal to the minimum salary of urban business sector (2 million dong per month), as of the average level of the minimum salary of business sector (1.680 million dong per month), or based on fundamental requirements of administrative employees (3.150 million dong per month). 

The monitoring board of the proposal will continue to study and learn from all recommendations and comments of leaders, managers, scientists, and other specialists to draw a specific and detailed proposal in order to help the administrative employees to be able to live by their salary by 2020. 

Chung Hoang