Need to pay compensation to students performing at the Sports Festival soon

For many months now, Mr. Nguyen Trung Dung - a teacher at Huynh Thuc Khang High School (Vinh City), has been receiving questions from students about the compensation for their performance at the opening ceremony of the 9th Provincial Sports Festival that has yet to be received. "The students keep asking, but we don't know how to answer. The amount of money may not be large, but it is a source of encouragement as well as the effort the students put in. If there are regulations, they must be paid in full," said Mr. Dung.

1,000 students mobilized to participate in the opening ceremony of the Sports Festival have not yet received the full compensation as prescribed. Photo: Duc Anh

Five months ago, when Vinh city was at its hottest, Huynh Thuc Khang High School received a decision to mobilize students to participate in mass rehearsals in preparation for the 9th Provincial Sports Festival. At this time, it was the middle of summer, 12th graders had just graduated, 11th graders were preparing for their final year exams, so although the Department requested to mobilize 300 students, Huynh Thuc Khang High School could only mobilize 268 10th graders. To prepare for the opening ceremony, all students of the school along with 8 teachers in charge had to practice continuously for nearly 20 days.

The opening ceremony performance featured about 1,000 students and nearly 100 excellent actors and athletes. To prepare for the program, students from four schools in Vinh City were mobilized, including Huynh Thuc Khang High School, Le Viet Thuat High School, Nguyen Truong To High School and Hermann Gmeiner Vinh High School.

Students at the performance during the rehearsal night. Photo: Duc Anh

According to the announcement at that time, all students and teachers participating in the training would be compensated 30,000/day/student and 60,000/day/teacher according to the regulations. Before the opening, all students participating in the program were paid about half. The rest, to date, have not received any.

“When students asked questions, we asked relevant units but the answers were not clear. Our school has 300 students participating but so far they have only been paid half of the total amount,” said a teacher at Le Viet Thuat High School.

Meanwhile, a representative of Nguyen Truong To High School also confirmed that the students have not received the full amount of this allowance. “The students asked, but we said we had to wait for the organizer because it might require a lot of procedures. We also encouraged our students to participate because it was their duty and for the spirit of sportsmanship so that they could feel secure,” said the school leader.

According to regulations, each student will receive 30,000 VND for each rehearsal day. The total rehearsal day is 40,000 VND and the performance day is 70,000 VND. Photo: Duc Anh

Speaking to Nghe An Newspaper reporters, the leader of the Department of Sports Management (Nghe An Department of Culture and Sports) said that the opening ceremony program of this year's Provincial Sports Festival was signed by the Department with an event organization company. The responsibility for paying the compensation therefore belongs to the company. "Today, after receiving information on social networks about many students not receiving full compensation for their performances, the Department's leaders directed the specialized departments to contact the event organizer to request payment for the students," he said.

To clarify the information, the reporter contacted the event organizer, Hung Tri Company Limited, located in Bac Ninh province. The company representative admitted that, to date, they have not yet paid the full compensation for about 1,000 students participating in the rehearsal and performance for the Opening Ceremony of the Nghe An Provincial Sports Festival.

This person said that 1,000 students participated in the rehearsal and performance for 19 days. According to the regulations, each student will receive 30,000 VND/day for rehearsal; 40,000 VND/day for general rehearsal and 70,000 VND for performance day. In addition, teachers will receive 60,000 VND/day to join the students. In total, each student will receive 620,000 VND in compensation for 19 days. Of which, right after the general rehearsal, the company paid each student 350,000 VND. The teachers have been paid in full. Thus, each student still owes 270,000 VND.

Hung Tri Company Limited commits that on November 30, the company will pay the full amount of the missing compensation to all students.