Regulations on working regime for general education teachers

GD&TĐ - Readers asked about working regulations for general education teachers.

According to Decision 2045/QD-BGDDT promulgating the time plan framework for the 2024 - 2025 school year for preschool education , general education and continuing education, the school year time plan is 35 weeks (semester I has 18 weeks, semester II has 17 weeks).

In the Consolidated Document No. 03/VBHN-BGDĐT of 2017 promulgating regulations on the working regime of general teachers, there is a regulation on the teaching norm of high school teachers as 17 periods/week. I would like to ask, if in a year a teacher teaches 17 periods/week according to the school year schedule, the total number of periods is 595 periods.

In case a teacher teaches more than 595 periods (assuming the number of periods still ensures the regulations on overtime hours in the Labor Code, for example 600 periods), will he/she be paid for the excess periods, or must it exceed the total number of standard periods of 37 weeks (according to Consolidated Document No. 03/VBHN-BGDĐ, there are 37 weeks for teaching and educational activities according to regulations on the school year schedule) of 629 periods to be paid? (duynam***@gmail.com)

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On March 7, 2025, the Ministry of Education and Training issued Circular No. 05/2025/TT-BGDDT regulating the working regime for general education and university preparatory teachers (effective from April 22, 2025). Pursuant to Point a, Clause 1, Article 5 and Clause 2, Article 7 of the above Circular, the number of weeks to calculate the standard teaching period in a school year for high school teachers is 35 weeks. Thus, the standard teaching period in a school year for high school teachers is: 17 periods/week x 35 weeks = 595 periods/school year.

Teachers who teach more than 595 periods per school year (e.g., 600 periods) can be paid for overtime if they meet the conditions without exceeding 629 periods. However, the payment must comply with the provisions of Joint Circular No. 07/2013/TTLT-BGDĐT-BNV-BTC. This Circular stipulates that overtime wages will only be paid in units or departments that lack the number of teachers approved by competent authorities.

Units or departments that do not lack teachers will only be paid overtime wages when teachers are on sick leave or maternity leave according to the provisions of the Law on Social Insurance or when they go to study, train, participate in inspection teams, and participate in other tasks assigned or mobilized by competent authorities. Other teachers must be arranged to teach instead.

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