Need for transparency between salary and income

Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue emphasized that it is necessary to clarify and distinguish between salaries and allowances of salary nature for cadres, civil servants and public employees.

On the afternoon of November 27, Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue, Head of the Central Steering Committee for salary reform, social insurance and incentives for people with meritorious services, surveyed salary policies at the Delegation Work Committee, the National Assembly's Committee on Social Affairs and the National Assembly Office.

Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue. Photo: Thanh Chung

Wage increases are uneven.

Assessing the current wage policy, the Delegation Working Committee believes that the general minimum wage applied to those receiving salaries from the budget is still too low, not ensuring the minimum living needs of cadres, civil servants and their families.

The salary scale system has not been built based on the position or title of each individual officer or civil servant, but there are only common salary scales and tables for all officers, civil servants, and public employees.

The payment or salary increase is carried out equally, mainly based on the seniority and qualifications of the cadres, civil servants and public employees, not on the assigned work or position. The current salary system does not show any difference in the salary payment mechanism for different types of work.

The Delegation Working Group, the Committee on Social Affairs and the Office of the National Assembly proposed that reforming the wage policy not only involves adjusting the basic wage and regional minimum wage, but also building a wage policy system that becomes a driving force for public service, labor, production and business activities of enterprises, not being equal as it is now, with relative compatibility between the state and enterprise sectors.

Photo: Thanh Chung

Regarding the scope of activities of National Assembly deputies, the agencies of the National Assembly also proposed that the Steering Committee study the reduction of regimes and allowances (of a salary nature) to be included in the salary, helping to increase the salary of officials, civil servants and agencies of the National Assembly without affecting the source of salary payment; reducing the number of salary levels which are currently too many.

Transparency in wages and income

The Deputy Prime Minister requested that the National Assembly agencies continue to analyze and contribute ideas to develop the Project for the Steering Committee in the coming time.

Specifically, referring to the experience of parliaments in the region and the world to calculate appropriate salary policies for long-time National Assembly deputies, new positions prescribed by law such as Secretary General of the National Assembly, Deputy Secretary General of the National Assembly.

At the same time, calculate the salary correlation of elected bodies at the central and local levels with other special judicial bodies at the same level.

The Deputy Prime Minister agreed that it is necessary to clarify and distinguish between salaries and allowances of a salary nature and allowances of a preferential subsidy nature to make transparent the salaries and incomes of cadres, civil servants and public employees.

He also said that the Government will continue to implement "increasing revenue and saving expenditure", including analyzing and defining the regular expenditure structure of the state apparatus to create more resources for salary reform in the coming period.

According to Vietnamnet.vn