Major reform in salary calculation under the direction of the General Secretary

At a recent meeting with Hanoi voters, answering questions about salary policies for cadres, civil servants and public employees, General Secretary To Lam stated that determining the payroll and job positions is very important to implement salaries according to Resolution 27 of the Central Committee (Resolution on salary reform towards abolishing the basic salary level and the current salary scale and table system).

Currently, the Politburo directs agencies to complete the job position project in the fourth quarter of 2025 as a basis for determining the staffing of agencies in the political system, and fully implementing the contents of salary reform.

"The salary to maintain labor and encourage priority industries must be calculated based on job positions, not equalized," the General Secretary emphasized.

The key to real, fair pay

Discussing this issue, Dr. Nguyen Thi Viet Nga, member of the National Assembly's Committee on Culture and Society, affirmed that salary reform is always the top concern of voters nationwide. Because salary is not only directly related to the lives of officials, civil servants, public employees, armed forces and workers, but also reflects fairness and encouragement in society.

As a National Assembly delegate, Ms. Viet Nga realized that voters are particularly interested in the issue of wages in general and the issue of wage reform in particular, especially since the Party Central Committee issued Resolution 27 on wage policy reform (2018).

Voters expressed their hope that the Party and State would soon implement a new, substantive and synchronous salary policy to create fairness and efficiency, to ensure living standards and encourage staff to work with peace of mind and dedication.

In fact, from July 1, 2024, the Politburo has agreed to implement 4/6 contents clearly stated in the salary reform project. Regarding the remaining contents, the general opinion of Party and State leaders is that they must be carefully studied. Delegate Nguyen Thi Viet Nga agreed with the statement of General Secretary To Lam that determining the payroll and job positions is very important to implement salaries according to Resolution 27 of the Central Committee.

“We cannot build a new salary system without clearly defining who does what, in what position, what responsibilities and contributions. However, replacing salary payments from the traditional salary scale to the salary calculation method based on job position, as the name suggests, is a major reform with many difficulties, complexities, and problems that need to be resolved and overcome,” Ms. Nga commented.

Therefore, according to Ms. Nga, the policy of building and perfecting the job position system carefully and step by step is absolutely necessary, avoiding haste, and at the same time overcoming shortcomings that have lasted for many years. This is the key to a more fair, transparent and substantial salary allocation.

Associate Professor, Dr. Ngo Thanh Can, former Deputy Head of the Department of Organization and Human Resources Management, Senior Lecturer, National Academy of Public Administration (Photo: Hoa Le).

Sharing the same view, Associate Professor Dr. Ngo Thanh Can, former Deputy Head of the Department of Organization and Human Resources Management, Senior Lecturer, National Academy of Public Administration, affirmed that building and perfecting the job position system is a fundamental solution with a premise for implementing salary reform.

According to Mr. Can, recently Vietnam has carried out a preliminary and final review of the implementation of the law on cadres and civil servants, while also studying and absorbing international experience, reviewing, supplementing and perfecting the system of legal documents on job positions and criteria for evaluating and classifying cadres and civil servants associated with each job position in the public sector.

In addition, agencies and units in the political system have focused on building and perfecting the list of job positions, job descriptions, determining the structure of civil servants and public employees, determining the competency framework for each job position and have implemented staff streamlining.

Along with the operation of the 2-level local government model, the former Deputy Head of the Department of Organization and Personnel Management noted that the whole country continues to reorganize the apparatus and restructure the team to implement salary payment according to job position, title and leadership position.

What is necessary now, according to Mr. Cang, is to continue reforming the organizational apparatus, streamlining the payroll, and perfecting the system of legal documents on job positions in the entire political system, to promote the salary reform process.

Wage equalization reduces motivation to strive.

Returning to Dr. Nguyen Viet Nga, the female National Assembly delegate assessed that "salary reform must be calculated from the job position" is a very important and practical direction of the General Secretary.

Ms. Nga analyzed that for a long time, the leveling in salary policy based on the scale calculation method has created an unsatisfactory mentality, reducing motivation to strive. With this calculation method, employees who meet the conditions (not being disciplined, completing tasks well...) will receive periodic salary increases.

“With the same job position, same capacity, same work results, the salary that employees receive can be very different due to different years of work. That does not really create fairness,” Ms. Nga stated in practice.

Dr. Nguyen Thi Viet Nga is currently a member of the National Assembly's Committee on Culture and Social Affairs (Photo: QH).

Ms. Nga also emphasized that paying salaries based on job positions, linked to work performance, with classification and a specific roadmap will contribute to encouraging people to do well. This is also the basis for building a professional, responsible, dynamic, transparent and effective civil service as the spirit of Resolution 27 has proposed.

Faced with the challenge of wages rising before prices rise, Ms. Nga warned that this would negate the significance of wage reform. Therefore, the Government's role in managing the macro economy, controlling inflation and stabilizing prices is extremely important.

Delegates believe that the Government needs to proactively take measures to manage, strengthen forecasting, inspection and supervision of the market to avoid the situation of "following the flow". When this work is done well, salary adjustment will truly bring about the meaning of improving people's lives, strengthening people's confidence and creating a driving force for sustainable development.

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