Ministry of Home Affairs guides salary classification for commune-level officials

The Ministry of Home Affairs answers readers about salary classification for commune-level officials with intermediate vocational and college degrees.

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The readers raised the issue with the Ministry of Home Affairs: Currently, some commune-level cadres have vocational intermediate and college degrees. To comply with regulations and ensure the rights of those cadres, is it possible to rank their salaries based on their vocational intermediate and college degrees? For example: The President of the Women's Union has a vocational intermediate degree in social work.

Responding to readers, the Ministry of Home Affairs has the following opinion: According to the provisions of the 2019 Law on Education, intermediate and college levels are training levels belonging to the vocational education level of the national education system (Point c, Clause 1, Article 6).

The 2014 Law on Vocational Education stipulates a vocational education system that applies to all secondary schools and colleges. At the same time, this Law replaces the 2006 Law on Vocational Training, which stipulates that there is no distinction between training institutions, training types and state management agencies for vocational education (the 2006 Law on Vocational Training stipulates that secondary vocational schools and colleges are under the management of the Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs to distinguish them from secondary vocational schools and colleges under the management of the Ministry of Education and Training according to the provisions of the 2012 Law on Higher Education).

According to the provisions of Article 5 of Decree No. 92/2009/ND-CP dated October 22, 2009 of the Government on titles, numbers, some regimes and policies for cadres, civil servants in communes, wards, towns and non-professional workers at the commune level (amended and supplemented in Decree No. 34/2019/ND-CP dated April 24, 2019), commune-level cadres who have graduated from intermediate level or higher in professional training shall be paid as administrative civil servants as prescribed in salary table No. 2 issued together with Decree No. 204/2004/ND-CP dated December 14, 2004 of the Government on salary regime for cadres, civil servants, public employees and armed forces.

Circular No. 13/2019/TT-BNV dated November 6, 2019 of the Minister of Home Affairs guiding a number of regulations on commune-level cadres, civil servants and non-professional workers at the commune level, in villages and residential groups stipulates that commune-level cadres and civil servants who have graduated from college level professional and technical training are ranked according to the staff rank (applicable to civil servants type A0); those who have graduated from intermediate professional and technical training are ranked according to the employee rank (applicable to civil servants type B) according to the provisions of Article 9a of Circular No. 11/2014/TT-BNV dated October 9, 2014 of the Minister of Home Affairs stipulating titles, rank codes and professional standards of civil servant ranks in the administrative sector have been amended and supplemented in Clause 6, Article 1 of Circular No. 05/2017/TT-BNV dated August 15, 2017 of the Minister of Home Affairs.