Reviewing regional minimum wages after reorganization of provinces and communes

HƯƠNG NHA |

Minister of Home Affairs Pham Thi Thanh Tra suggested that units review policies related to regional minimum wages when reorganizing provinces and communes.

This is one of the important tasks clearly stated by Minister Pham Thi Thanh Tra at the Working Committee Conference in March, deploying the tasks of the second quarter and April 2025 of the Ministry of Home Affairs.

According to the Ministry of Home Affairs' Electronic Information Portal, to prepare well for the 9th session of the 15th National Assembly, Minister Pham Thi Thanh Tra requested the establishment of a working group to discuss, assign tasks, and pay attention to promptly responding to voters' recommendations.

Regarding institutional building, the Minister requested to focus on completing a large number of policies related to the fields of employment, wages and other fields, urging localities to seriously implement and without interruption the policies for meritorious people.

The Minister noted the progress of completing the national strategy on Vietnamese labor to work abroad is important, associated with the amendment of decrees related to foreign workers in Vietnam and Vietnamese workers abroad in the new situation. This requires many requirements on labor market issues, labor productivity, and ensuring the country's development goals.

The Minister emphasized that units need to quickly review the list of decrees that need to be amended, supplemented or newly developed to serve the operation of local government at 2 levels, decentralize and delegate authority to localities.

Strengthen the application of information technology, use artificial intelligence (AI) in parallel with manual measures to review legal documents that need to be amended and supplemented related to decentralization and delegation of authority to localities.

Ensure that documents will be submitted in parallel and issued soon, after the revised Constitution and the revised Law on Organization of Local Government are passed.

The Ministry of Home Affairs will focus on urging ministries and ministerial-level agencies to implement the Prime Minister's Decision No. 608/QD-TTg on decentralization and decentralization; Make a report on the situation and results of conclusion No. 121-KL/TW of the Central Executive Committee and Resolution No. 176/2025/QH15 of the National Assembly after implementing the Resolution on the arrangement of ministries, ministerial-level agencies, government agencies and specialized agencies of the provincial and district People's Committee.

Notably, Minister Pham Thi Thanh Tra also proposed reviewing policies related to allowances, special allowances, and regional minimum wages to advise and propose amendments to specific decrees, especially the arrangement of provincial-level administrative units, reorganization of commune-level administrative units, etc.

At the same time, the Ministry of Home Affairs will seriously implement the application of science, technology, innovation and digital transformation in the spirit of Resolution 57-NQ/TW; organize a thematic conference on digital transformation content to thoroughly and specifically implement tasks to each affiliated and affiliated unit.

From July 1, 2024, Decree 74/2024/ND-CP The Government has adjusted the minimum wage increase by June%, with the following levels: Region I is 4.96 million VND; Region II is 4.41 million VND; Region III is 3.86 million VND; Region IV is 3.45 million VND.

In August 2024, the Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs (now the Ministry of Home Affairs) decided to conduct a large-scale investigation into the labor and salary situation in enterprises in 2024. The survey was conducted on a scale of 3,400 enterprises, representing 8 economic regions of the country.

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