The government saves 560 trillion VND to reform wages; from 2025, average wages will increase by 7%/year

Tran Manh October 23, 2023 10:55

The Government has stepped up revenue increase, saved expenditures, and set aside about VND 560 trillion in salary funds to date, ensuring sufficient resources for salary reform according to Resolution No. 27-NQ/TW from July 1, 2024, for the three years 2024 - 2026.

Enough money to reform salaries; increase salaries of cadres, civil servants, public employees, and armed forces by an average of 7%/year

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Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh presents a report at the 6th Session of the 15th National Assembly.

On the morning of October 23, at the National Assembly House, Hanoi, under the chairmanship of Politburo member and National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue, the 6th session of the 15th National Assembly officially opened.

The Government's report on the results of the implementation of the 2023 socio-economic development plan; the projected socio-economic development plan for the year presented by Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh at the 6th Session of the 15th National Assembly said: In recent years, despite difficulties during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Government has promoted revenue increase, saved expenditures, and set aside a salary fund of about VND 560 trillion to date, ensuring sufficient resources for salary reform according to Resolution No. 27-NQ/TW from July 1, 2024 for the 3 years 2024 - 2026.

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Party and State leaders attended the opening session of the meeting.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh said that in 2025, the Government will reform the salary policy for the public sector according to Resolution No. 27-NQ/TW of the Central Committee from July 1, 2024.

At the same time, the Government also continues to adjust regional minimum wages and wage policies for the business sector according to regulations.

From 2025 onwards, continue to adjust salaries to increase by an average of 7%/year for cadres, civil servants, public employees, and armed forces until the lowest salary is equal to or higher than the lowest salary in region I of the business sector.

Effectively overcome the situation of employees withdrawing social insurance at one time

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Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh said that from 2025 onwards, salaries will continue to increase by an average of 7% per year for cadres, civil servants, public employees, and armed forces until the lowest salary is equal to or higher than the lowest salary in region I of the business sector.

In addition, the Government will also continue to fully and promptly implement and improve the effectiveness of policies for people with meritorious services, social assistance, ensure social security, reduce multidimensional poverty, inclusively and sustainably, improve the material and spiritual life of the people, and leave no one behind.

In the direction of integrating policies in different fields to avoid overlap and duplication, ensuring consistency and efficiency, linked to sustainable development goals, ensuring a gradual increase in minimum living standards and increasing people's access to basic social services.

Review and improve social insurance, health insurance, and unemployment insurance policies towards expanding coverage and participants; effectively overcome the situation of employees withdrawing social insurance at one time.

Continue to perfect mechanisms and policies, resolutely and effectively implement the Project to invest in building at least 1 million social housing units by 2030.

Develop a flexible, modern, effective, sustainable, integrated labor market and strongly promote job exchanges. In particular, promote sustainable job creation, effective labor use, especially through programs, projects, and credit policies to support job creation and participation in the labor market; build harmonious, stable, and progressive labor relations; do a good job of occupational safety and hygiene and manage foreign workers in Vietnam.

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Scene of the 6th Session, 15th National Assembly.

Timely overcome difficulties in price management, bidding, drug and medical equipment procurement

Strengthen disease prevention and control; ensure food hygiene and safety, especially in collective kitchens, schools, and industrial parks.

At the same time, promptly overcome difficulties in price management, bidding, procurement of drugs, equipment, and medical supplies; completely resolve difficulties in hospital projects that have lasted for many years; strictly handle violations in advertising food and functional foods.

Ensure adequate and timely vaccines and maintain vaccination rates for all vaccines in the Expanded Immunization Program above 90%.

Research and develop a comprehensive population policy framework, ensuring a replacement birth rate appropriate to regions, areas, population groups, and population quantity and quality, contributing to prolonging and taking advantage of the golden population period./.

Tran Manh