Speaking with Lao Dong, Dr. Vu Minh Duc, Director of the Department of Teachers and Educational Managers, Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) said that during the process of developing the Law on Teachers, the Ministry of Education and Training has also drafted decrees and circulars, including a decree regulating salary policies for teachers.
Mr. Duc said that Point b, Clause 1, Article 23 of the Law on Teachers stipulates that "Teachers' salaries are ranked highest in the administrative career salary scale system" and assigned the Government to specify in detail the salary policy for teachers.
"This is an important basis for the Government to have adjustment regulations related to teachers' salaries to ensure the policy of "highest responsibility" - Mr. Duc said.
According to Mr. Duc, teachers' salaries will still be calculated according to the formula: Salary = Salary coefficient x Basic salary.
However, in the draft Decree regulating salary policies, allowances, support and attraction regimes for teachers in the draft Law on Teachers, the Ministry of Education and Training plans to advise the Government to rearrange the salary tables of some titles of teachers (such as preschool, general education, university reservists, Grade IV vocational education teachers, etc.) to ensure consistency in the salary table applicable to the professional titles of teachers and civil servants in other fields and fields; at the same time, ensure the standard of living of teachers, help teachers feel secure in their work and contributions to the education cause.
At the same time, the draft Decree also stipulates a special salary coefficient for teachers at 1.1 -1.6 depending on the level of education and training level to ensure that teachers' salaries are higher than civil servants and the salary table applied to other sectors and fields; reduce the salary gap between young teachers and long-time teachers in the same job position.
"These expected solutions are implemented in the context that salary payment is still implemented according to the provisions of Decree No. 204/2004/ND-CP and will be the basis for implementing salary rearrangement when the Government issues a new salary policy to ensure that teachers' salaries are "ranked highest" - Mr. Duc emphasized.
The Director of the Department of Teachers and Educational Managers informed that in addition to regulations on salary and allowance policies, the Law on Teachers also stipulates support and attraction policies, which are important for teachers.
Accordingly, all teachers are entitled to a subsidy regime according to the nature of their work, by region; training and fostering support regime; periodic health care support regime, occupational health care; mobile allowances for teachers working in illiteracy eradication, popularization of education, secondment, intensive teaching, inter-school teaching, teaching at schools and other support policies according to current law.
At the same time, teachers working in ethnic minority areas, mountainous areas, border areas, islands and areas with particularly difficult socio-economic conditions are allowed to rent public housing according to the provisions of the law on housing or are guaranteed collective housing.
In case the collective housing or public housing cannot be arranged, teachers will be supported with housing rentals at the level of public housing rental support according to the provisions of law. These support policies are not necessarily new, but for the first time there are comprehensive regulations to ensure that all teachers, regardless of public or non-public status, are entitled to support policies to ensure conditions for teachers to continuously develop their careers.
