Public servants enjoy basic salary increase from July 1

1. Cadres, civil servants from Central level to district level specified in clause 1 and clause 2, Article 4 of the 2008 Law on cadres, civil servants;

2. Cadres, civil servants at communal level specified in clause 3, Article 4 of the 2008 Law on cadres, civil servants;

3. Public employees in public non-business units as prescribed in the 2010 Law on public employees;

4. Persons working under the labor contractual regime in accordance with the Government’s Decree 204/2004/ND-CP dated December 14, 2004 on cadres, civil servants, and people in armed forces including:

– Persons working under the labor contractual regime as prescribed in the Government’s Decree No. 68/2000/ND-CP dated November 17, 2000, on the application of the contractual regime to a number of jobs in the state administrative agencies and public-service units;

– Persons working under the labor contractual regime in public non-business units according to decision of the PM.

5. Persons working within payroll criterion being allocated from the State budget in association with specific characteristics specified in the Government’s Decree No. 45/2010/ND-CP dated April 21, 2010, providing the organization, operation and state management of associations;

6. Officers, professional military persons, non-commissioned officers, termed soldiers and workers, public employees of Defense, contracted employees in the Viet Nam People’s Army;

7. Officers, non-commissioned officers enjoying wage, non-commissioned officers, soldiers in a term service; workers, public security personnel and contracted employees under the People’s Public Security;

8. Persons working in cipher organizations;

9. Persons operating on a part-time basis at communal level, in hamlet and in residential group.

The rise was expected to improve living standards for public servants, staffs, and military forces.

Expenditures for minimum wage hike

Under Decree 47, ministries and ministerial-level agencies were asked to arrange their budget estimate and strive for higher collection to offset the basic wage adjustment in 2017.

Provinces and municipal cities were assigned to use 10% of their regular spending to cover the minimum wage hike.

Earlier, the minimum monthly salary of public servants increased to VND1.21 million (US$54.3) on May 1, 2016. Since 2008 the minimum monthly salary increased just twice, from VND540,000 (US$24.2) to VND1.21 million (US$54.3)./.

By Kim Loan