Take labor productivity and work efficiency as the basis for salary increase

The National Assembly passed a Resolution on the State budget estimate for 2024. The Resolution stated that from July 1, 2024, a comprehensive reform of the wage policy will be implemented according to Resolution No. 27 dated May 21, 2018 of the 7th Conference of the 12th Central Executive Committee.

Revolving around the story of reforming public sector salary policy, how to make salary truly the main source of income, ensuring the lives of salary earners, Nguoi Dua Tin (NDT) had an interview with National Assembly Delegate Nguyen Thi Suu - Deputy Head of the National Assembly Delegation of Thua Thien - Hue .

Investor: Dear delegate, please evaluate the significance of the National Assembly passing the salary reform policy from July 1, 2024?

National Assembly Deputy Nguyen Thi Suu: It must be affirmed that the salary reform period from July 1, 2024 is a milestone that will have a positive impact on civil servants, public employees, workers, and those receiving salaries from the State budget. This is what everyone expects.

Investor: In your opinion, what issues need to be taken into account when reforming public sector salary policy?

National Assembly Delegate Nguyen Thi Suu: In the public sector, civil servants, public employees, and workers who purely receive state salaries, I think they need to be considered and adjusted more appropriately in different directions, suitable for each subject.

There are groups working at high levels, strategies are encouraged to invest brainpower, invest time seriously. At the same time, the specific labor groups need to increase their salaries differently.

In particular, every field needs experts and talents. Therefore, there needs to be a review and assessment of the impact of salary policy reform on the group of talents, experts, and high-quality human resources in all fields. Because, no one else, they will be the most standard consultants in the field of expertise.

Dialogue - Using labor productivity and work efficiency as the basis for salary increase — National Assembly Delegate Nguyen Thi Suu.

In particular, it is necessary to thoroughly understand Resolution 27, which is to consider wage policy as a particularly important part of the socio -economic policy system.

Investor: As the delegate analyzed, is paying the right salary an investment in human resource development?

National Assembly Deputy Nguyen Thi Suu: That is true, because human resources are a very special resource. Therefore, reforming wage policy must comply with the principle of distribution according to labor and the objective laws of the market economy and take increased labor productivity and work efficiency as the basis for increasing wages. Because, increasing labor productivity contributes to economic growth.

Labor productivity growth is measured through products, through labor efficiency, through products created for life.

Investor: The issue of salary policy reform affects those who receive salaries from the budget, so how to reform to ensure fairness for all beneficiaries, ensuring fairness in geographical areas is an issue that receives much attention. According to the delegate, what do we need to do to harmonize this?

Dialogue - Using labor productivity and work efficiency as the basis for salary increase (Figure 2). — It is necessary to ensure the minimum living standards of each civil servant and public employee when reforming salaries.

National Assembly Deputy Nguyen Thi Suu: To ensure that the salary reform policy is fair, transparent, and just in all regions of the country in the public sector, it is necessary to analyze the target groups. Along with that, in my opinion, it is necessary to calculate more remote areas... support from the State budget in a harmonious way, creating motivation for localities to have enough capacity to balance their budgets, collect enough revenue to spend to create comprehensive development, reduce the burden on the State budget so that the State budget can be used for macro issues.

Fair but proportionate, must ensure the minimum living standard of each cadre, civil servant, and public employee. At the same time, ensure their family life. Because, there are families of cadres, civil servants, and public employees who are the main laborers. Especially note, low-income cadres, civil servants, and public employees need to calculate more to create motivation to produce high-quality human resources.

Investor: What are your expectations for a comprehensive reform of wage policy from July 1, 2024?

National Assembly Deputy Nguyen Thi Suu: From July 1, 2024, a comprehensive reform of the new salary policy will be implemented. I hope that cadres, civil servants, public employees, and workers receiving salaries in the public sector will be satisfied with this salary reform policy, and this is also a major breakthrough and political determination of the Party and State to increasingly improve the income and quality of life of workers.

In addition, the salaries of village health workers, teachers, school staff, etc. are not enough to meet the living standards, so in my opinion, this group of people also needs attention. If so, then the value of salary policy reform will be comprehensive, objective, fair, creating real stability, creating motivation to do well all assigned tasks.

Investor: In your opinion, is it necessary to have such evaluation and supervision during the implementation process of this salary policy reform?

National Assembly Deputy Nguyen Thi Suu: After the salary reform policy is implemented, it needs to be implemented synchronously across all agencies in the public sector. At the same time, it is necessary to strengthen inspection, examination, guidance and supervision so that the policy can truly come to life.

Investor: Thank you very much, delegates!

According to Resolution No. 104 on the State budget estimate for 2024, on the implementation of wage policy, the Resolution clearly states: From July 1, 2024, comprehensive reform of wage policy will be implemented according to Resolution No. 27-NQ/TW dated May 21, 2018 of the 7th Conference of the 12th Central Executive Committee (Funding sources for wage reform are guaranteed from the accumulated wage reform source of the central budget, local budgets and a part arranged in the state budget balance expenditure estimate); adjusting pensions, social insurance benefits, monthly allowances, preferential allowances for meritorious people and a number of social security policies currently linked to the basic salary.

For central state administrative agencies and units implementing a special financial and income management mechanism: From January 1, 2024 to June 30, 2024: The monthly salary and additional income calculated according to the basic salary of 1.8 million VND/month according to the special mechanism shall not exceed the salary and additional income received in December 2023 (excluding the salary and additional income due to the adjustment of the salary coefficient of the salary scale and grade when upgrading the grade and grade in 2024). In case of calculation according to the above principle, if the salary and additional income in 2024 according to the special mechanism is lower than the salary level according to the general regulations, only the salary regime according to the general regulations shall be applied to ensure the rights of employees... .

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