School staff receive professional preferential allowance for the first time
The Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) has completed and sent to the Ministry of Justice for appraisal the draft Decree stipulating the preferential allowance regime for civil servants and employees working in public educational institutions.
According to the draft, the Ministry of Education and Training proposes to add a 20% preferential allowance for school staff, with a cost of 158 billion VND/month. This is the first time this group of subjects has enjoyed professional preferential allowances.
The Ministry of Education and Training believes that current budget resources do not allow expanding the benefit level to 30% for new target groups, avoiding budget spending pressure and ensuring long-term implementation capacity.
Therefore, applying the 20% level in the initial stage is suitable for practical conditions, both ensuring support for workers and creating a basis for continuing to evaluate and improve policies in the coming time.
This allowance level is applied from January 1, 2026 to the end of December 31, 2030. From January 1, 2031, the implementation of professional preferential allowances for preschool and general education teachers will be applied according to the provisions of Resolution No. 71, which is at least 70% - 100% for general education and preschool teachers and 30% for school staff.
School staff propose to immediately enjoy a minimum level of 30%
Ms. Nguyen Thi Hien - a school accountant in Hanoi is heartbroken when mentioning the salary issue. Working in the education sector for nearly 27 years, her salary is only nearly 10 million VND/month.
Information that the Ministry of Education and Training is proposing the professional preferential allowance level for school staff in recent days has made Ms. Hien and many colleagues happy, because after decades, they have also been concerned and supplemented with preferential regimes. However, what Ms. Hien is concerned about is that the 20% allowance level is not reasonable, not commensurate with the efforts and contributions of school staff in general and accountants in particular.
Over the years, there have been many policies to support the teaching staff, and the school staff, despite enduring many hardships and silent contributions, have been forgotten and suffered many disadvantages in terms of salary and allowances.
Not to mention, the school staff is not much compared to the total payroll of the whole country, so increasing the allowance by 10%, meaning the total allowance received is 30%, does not affect the budget spent on education" - Ms. Hien said.
Not only Ms. Hien, more than 13,700 school staff and teachers nationwide have sent letters to the Ministry of Home Affairs and the Ministry of Education and Training requesting to enjoy salary increases, professional allowances and professional incentives for accounting officials in schools.
They believe that, over the years, the preferential treatment regime for this force still has many shortcomings, not reflecting the true values, responsibilities and professional risks they bear. This has caused disadvantages, injustice and reduced the contribution capacity of the public accounting team.
In the letter, the collective of more than 13,700 employees, accountants, and teachers proposed that the Ministry of Education and Training consider adjusting allowances for the staff at least 30%, and at the same time adjust allowances for the group of accounting officials in the draft implementation at least 50% in the spirit of Resolution 71, and 70% for the group of accounting officials working in mountainous areas and ethnic minority areas to ensure greater fairness between regions and job positions.
At the same time, they proposed that the Ministry of Public Security include the accounting profession in the group of hazardous and dangerous professions because the work has high pressure factors, stress, easy stress and the working environment is exposed to many hazardous factors.
At the same time, promulgate a hazardous and dangerous allowance regime for cadres, civil servants, and accounting public employees in state agencies and public service units similar to the hazardous allowance for clerical staff; entitled to a minimum hazardous and dangerous allowance from 1.0 to 1.5 commensurate with the level of risk and penalty of the accounting profession.
