According to the Government Electronic Information Portal on February 5th, specific preferential allowance levels are being proposed in the draft Decree stipulating the regime of professional preferential allowances for public employees and laborers working in public health facilities.
According to the draft, professional preferential allowances apply to civil servants and contract workers working in public non-business units in the fields of preventive medicine; medical examination and treatment; rehabilitation; traditional medicine; pharmaceuticals, cosmetics; food safety; medical equipment; medical examination, forensic, forensic psychiatry; population; prevention and control of social evils; social protection.
Each civil servant and contract worker assigned to many jobs with different professional preferential allowances is only entitled to one highest professional preferential allowance level.
Professional preferential allowances are calculated at a percentage of the salary level according to the professional title, current grade plus leadership position allowance, preservation allowance (if any), seniority allowance beyond the frame (if any) of the beneficiaries.
Cases assigned work by competent authorities in accordance with the Job Position Project approved by competent authorities according to regulations are entitled to the corresponding preferential allowance for the profession.
The level of regularity in performing professional tasks is determined to be at least 50% of normal working hours per month as prescribed in the 2019 Labor Code.
In addition, allowances are not included during long-term study and work but without specialized work; unpaid leave for one month or more; social insurance leave; temporary suspension of work or assignment for one month or more, except for cases of being transferred to work at the commune level.
According to the draft Decree, there are 6 allowance levels for medical staff including 30%, 40%, 50%, 60%, 70% and 100%.
In which the 100% allowance level applies to:
- Officials who are assigned to regularly and directly perform medical expertise in the fields of psychiatry, forensic medicine, forensic psychiatry, emergency resuscitation (including emergency, intensive care, anti-poison), and pathology;
- Public employees working in medical expertise at commune-level health stations, preventive health facilities in ethnic minority and mountainous areas, areas with difficult socio-economic conditions, areas with particularly difficult socio-economic conditions, borders, sea and islands (according to regulations on criteria for regional demarcation of the Prime Minister).
