The Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) has developed a Draft Decree regulating salary policies and allowance regimes for teachers, which has now been sent to the Ministry of Justice for appraisal. One of the notable contents of the draft is the proposal to add many cases to enjoy work responsibility allowances, in order to accurately record the volume and nature of tasks that teachers are undertaking in practice.
Supplementing subjects and levels of responsibility allowance
According to Article 7 of the Draft Decree, in addition to the subjects who have already enjoyed work responsibility allowances according to current regulations, the Ministry of Education and Training proposes to expand the cases with specific benefit levels, calculated according to the base salary.
In which, the allowance level of 0.1 compared to the base salary level is applied to teachers assigned to perform school counseling and social work in schools.
The allowance level of 0.2 compared to the base salary level applies to:
The teacher is assigned the task of deputy head of professional group or deputy head of subject according to regulations;
Teachers directly teaching people with disabilities in the form of inclusive education at educational institutions that are not specialized schools, centers supporting the development of inclusive education, calculated according to the number of hours of teaching or lessons for people with disabilities in reality.
Notably, the highest allowance level is 0.3 compared to the proposed base salary applied to many groups of teachers, including:
Preschool and general education teachers are recognized as core teachers, and are assigned to perform core teacher duties for 5 days/month or more;
Educators teaching ethnic minority languages at ethnic minority language training departments in higher education institutions;
Teachers teaching subjects in foreign languages (except foreign language teachers);
Educators teaching ethnic minority languages at general education, continuing education and other educational institutions (not universities), if ensuring the number of hours according to norms; in which, teachers must teach an average of 4 periods/week or more, principals and vice-principals teach an average of 2 periods/week or more;
Teachers and administrators working at specialized schools and centers to support the development of inclusive education;
Teachers directly teach people with disabilities in specialized education methods at educational institutions that are not specialized schools.
Non-applicable cases and principles of benefit
The draft Decree also clearly stipulates cases where work responsibility allowances are not applied. Accordingly, teachers who have received responsibility allowances according to Decree 76/2019/ND-CP (for people working in areas with particularly difficult socio-economic conditions) will not continue to receive this allowance according to new regulations.
In addition, professional activities that have been reduced in lesson and hour norms or have been converted into lesson and hour norms are not subject to work responsibility allowance, unless otherwise provided by law.
How to calculate and pay allowances
The Ministry of Education and Training proposes that work responsibility allowances be paid for the same monthly salary period and not used to calculate social insurance contributions and benefits.
Specifically for teachers directly teaching people with disabilities according to integrated education methods, the draft stipulates a specific calculation method according to the percentage of hours, the number of actual teaching periods in the month compared to the teaching norm.
The Ministry of Education and Training's proposal to expand the cases eligible for work responsibility allowances is expected to create motivation for teachers, especially those who are taking on more tasks outside of formal teaching, contributing to ensuring fairness in salary and allowance policies when the Decree is officially promulgated.
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