Quang Nam province has allocated over 1.2 billion VND.

On the morning of December 23, the Quang Nam Provincial People's Committee Office announced that the Provincial People's Committee had decided to allocate over 1.2 billion VND to Quang Nam Medical College to temporarily pay salaries to its staff, lecturers, and employees who have been in arrears with their salaries for an extended period.

This amount was allocated from the unallocated training budget in the provincial budget for 2023 to train Lao students in 2022.

Quang Nam Provincial College of Health

School leaders said that the funds have not yet been transferred to the school's account. According to the plan, this money will be included in the school's revenue, and could be used to pay salaries for staff and faculty.

Regarding the remaining outstanding salaries for lecturers, the school is awaiting approval from the Standing Committee of the Quang Nam Provincial Party Committee for a plan to temporarily postpone the deduction of the school's annual budget for 2023 and the period 2023-2025, in order to create a source for paying salaries to staff and lecturers.

Mr. Huynh Tan Tuan, Principal of Quang Nam Provincial College of Health, said that the more than 1.2 billion VND allocated by the Quang Nam Provincial People's Committee will be used by the school to pay salaries for its lecturers, initially one month's salary, with the remainder used for insurance contributions. The school is awaiting further funding from the province to pay the remaining outstanding salaries to its employees.

According to Mr. Tuan, after learning that faculty and staff would be staging a collective work stoppage due to prolonged salary arrears, the school's leadership held a meeting with faculty, staff, and all employees to find solutions to resolve the situation.

The majority of staff and lecturers agreed to continue working until December 31st, awaiting support from the Provincial People's Committee to fund salary payments. Currently, the Party Committee of the Provincial People's Committee has submitted a proposal and is awaiting a meeting of the Provincial Party Standing Committee for guidance on resolving this prolonged salary arrears issue.

As Thanh Nien Newspaper reported, on December 14th, 17 officials and lecturers of Quang Nam Provincial College of Health Sciences sent a notice of collective work stoppage to the school's leadership.

In the announcement, 17 faculty members from the Nursing and Primary Healthcare departments stated they would cease work from December 18th until the university resolved their salary and allowance issues. Subsequently, after discussions at meetings, the suspension period was extended to December 31st.

According to the lecturers, the school has not paid their salaries and allowances for six months, from July 2023 to the present. The staff and lecturers are still trying to teach classes because they don't want to affect the students' studies. However, due to the prolonged delay in salary payments, many staff and lecturers are facing severe financial difficulties and are unable to continue working.

To date, Quang Nam Provincial College of Health Sciences owes six months' salary to 114 employees, totaling over 5.7 billion VND. In addition, the institution has also been late in paying social insurance contributions for several months.

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