On February 1st, information from Thanh Hoa Provincial People's Committee said that Standing Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Mai Xuan Liem has just issued a document requesting functional sectors and localities in communes (in the old Muong Lat district) to quickly review and resolve the payment of overtime teaching fees to teachers.
According to a report by the Thanh Hoa Department of Education and Training, the total number of teaching periods exceeding the norms of teachers who have not been paid in Muong Lat district (old) in the period from January 2024 to April 2025 is 46,357 periods. Of which, the second semester of the 2023-2024 school year has 15,516 periods; the first semester of the 2024-2025 school year is 14,624 periods; the second semester of the 2024-2025 school year is up to 16,217 periods.
By the time Muong Lat District People's Committee stopped operating from July 1, 2025, all of the above-mentioned overtime periods had not been paid to teachers, causing prolonged frustration among teachers.
According to the Thanh Hoa Department of Education and Training, the payment of overtime teaching salaries for teachers in the 2023-2024 and 2024-2025 school years is implemented according to Joint Circular No. 07/2013/TTLT-BGDĐT-BNV-BTC. The regulation clearly states that overtime teaching fees are only paid at units or departments lacking staff approved by competent authorities; or in cases where other teachers take sick leave, maternity leave, go to study, train or perform tasks assigned by competent authorities.
Meanwhile, in 2024 and 2025, the actual number of staff and contract workers in Muong Lat district (old) were both lacking compared to the assigned number, fully meeting the conditions for paying overtime teaching salaries according to current regulations.
In addition, the calculation of tutoring hours must also comply with the 2019 Labor Code, according to which the total number of overtime hours paid is no more than 300 hours/person/year. The cost of paying overtime tutoring fees has been allocated in the annual state budget estimate of educational institutions.
Faced with this situation, Thanh Hoa Provincial People's Committee has directed communes in Muong Lat (old) to review all overtime teaching records, correctly identify subjects and overtime teaching volumes exceeding norms; on that basis, proactively use commune-level budgets to pay according to regulations.
At the same time, assigning the Thanh Hoa Department of Education and Training to preside over and coordinate with relevant units to guide, inspect, and urge the thorough handling, and report to the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee before March 1, 2026.
