Resolution No. 27-NQ/TW was issued by the 12th Central Executive Committee on May 21, 2018, setting out the direction for comprehensive salary policy reform for the public sector and enterprises.
The goal is to build a transparent, fair salary system, suitable to the market mechanism, in which salaries become the main source of income, ensuring the lives of salaried people.
For the public sector, the Resolution requires redesigning the salary scale according to job positions, titles and leadership positions, and at the same time linking salary reform with staff streamlining and organizational arrangement.
Implementing this content, on March 20, the Ministry of Home Affairs said that it had just issued a document requesting ministries, ministerial-level agencies, government-attached agencies and People's Committees of provinces and centrally-run cities to report on the preliminary review of the implementation of Resolution No. 27-NQ/TW on salary policy reform.
Ministries, branches, and localities must report preliminary summaries of 8 years of implementing Resolution 27, comprehensively review salary policies in the public and business sectors, and send them before March 27.
It is expected that from July 1, only the base salary level and allowances of related subjects will be adjusted. In which, the base salary is proposed to be adjusted by 8% from July 1.
Implementing the conclusion of the Politburo, the Ministry of Home Affairs is assigned to develop 2 draft decrees on the new base salary level and adjusting pensions and allowances accordingly, applied from July 1.
2 related decrees to implement the above policies include: Building a Decree stipulating the base salary and bonus regime for cadres, civil servants, public employees and armed forces and a Decree adjusting pensions, social insurance allowances and monthly allowances.
At a recent working session with the Ministry of Home Affairs, Secretary of the Party Central Committee, Deputy Prime Minister Pham Thi Thanh Tra reminded the Ministry of Home Affairs to focus on studying and completing the proposed and oriented salary plan.
The Deputy Prime Minister requested to summarize and evaluate Resolution 27 on salary policy reform for cadres, civil servants, public employees, armed forces and employees in enterprises.
Government leaders said they have proposed to supplement this content to seek opinions from the Politburo and the Secretariat regarding the salary policy reform plan in the coming period.
According to Resolution 27-NQ/TW of 2018 of the Central Executive Committee, the new salary structure includes: Basic salary (accounting for about 70% of the total salary fund) and allowances (accounting for about 30% of the total salary fund).
Officials, civil servants and public employees are also supplemented with bonuses, the bonus fund is about 10% of the total salary fund of the year, excluding allowances.
5 salary scales include: 1 position salary scale applied to cadres, civil servants, and public employees holding leadership positions (elected and appointed) in the political system from the Central to commune levels; 1 professional and nghiệp vụ salary scale according to civil servant ranks and professional titles of public employees applied generally to civil servants and public employees who do not hold leadership titles; each civil servant rank and professional title of public employee has many salary grades.
Building 3 salary scales for the armed forces, including: 1 salary scale for military officers, officers, non-commissioned police officers (according to positions, titles and military ranks or ranks); 1 salary scale for professional soldiers, police technical specialists and 1 salary scale for national defense workers, police workers (in which maintaining the salary correlation of the armed forces compared to administrative civil servants as at present).
