Decree No. 25-CP stipulates temporarily the new salary system for civil servants, administrative officials, public service employees, and armed forces personnel.

DECREE

Interim regulations on the new salary system for civil servants, administrative officials, public service employees, and armed forces personnel.

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THE GOVERNMENT

Pursuant to the Government Organization Law dated September 30, 1992;

Based on the Resolution of the second session of the Ninth National Assembly;

At the proposal of the Minister of Labor, Invalids, and Social Affairs,

DECREE:

Article 1. Now promulgates temporarily the new salary system for civil servants, administrative officials, public service employees, and armed forces personnel to be uniformly applied throughout the country, replacing the salary system prescribed in Decree No. 235-HĐBT dated September 18, 1985.

Article 2. The minimum wage is 120,000 VND/month. This minimum wage serves as the basis for calculating other wage levels within the salary scale, wage allowances, and remuneration for the simplest jobs under normal working conditions.

Wage levels and wage allowances will be adjusted gradually in accordance with the State Budget's capacity to meet these requirements.

Article 3. Attached to this Decree are the following salary scales:

1. Salary scale for elected positions managing state administration from provincial to district level.

2. Salary scale system for civil servant ranks, administrative officials, and allowances for leadership positions in the administrative and public service sectors.

3. Salary scale system for officers and professional soldiers, allowances for leadership positions, non-commissioned officer and soldier allowances in the armed forces.

4. Senior expert salary scale comprising three grades with salary coefficients: 7.5; 8.0; and 8.5 applicable in political, economic administration, science and technology, education, health, culture, and arts fields.

Article 4. In addition to the salary scales stipulated in Article 3 of this Decree, the following wage allowances are also prescribed:

1. Regional allowance: applicable to remote and difficult areas with harsh weather conditions.

The allowance includes seven levels: 0.1; 0.2; 0.3; 0.4; 0.5; 0.7; and 1.0 compared to the minimum wage.

2. Hazardous work allowance: applicable to occupations or jobs with hazardous working conditions not included in the wage level.

The allowance includes four levels: 0.1; 0.2; 0.3; and 0.4 compared to the minimum wage.

3. Responsibility allowance: applicable to occupations or jobs requiring high responsibility or concurrently performing management tasks not within leadership positions.

The allowance includes three levels: 0.1; 0.2; and 0.3 compared to the minimum wage.

4. Night shift allowance: applicable to civil servants and administrative officials working from 10 PM to 6 AM.

The allowance includes two levels:

30% of the rank or position salary for occasional night work;

40% of the rank or position salary for regular night shifts (three-shift system) or permanent night work.

5. Attraction allowance: applicable to civil servants and administrative officials working in newly developed economic zones, economic bases, and distant islands with particularly difficult living conditions due to lack of infrastructure.

The allowance includes four levels of salary: 20%; 30%; 50%; and 70% of the rank or position salary.

The period of enjoyment is from 3 to 5 years.

6. Expensive living area allowance: applicable to areas where the cost of living index (food, services) is at least 10% higher than the national average.

The allowance includes five levels: 0.1; 0.15; 0.2; 0.25; and 0.3 compared to the minimum wage.

7. Mobility allowance: applicable to civil servants and administrative officials in certain occupations or jobs that require frequent changes in workplace and residence.

The allowance includes three levels: 0.2; 0.4; and 0.6 compared to the minimum wage.

Article 5. For the armed forces, additional benefits include:

1. Tenure allowance (in accordance with the Law on Officers of the Vietnam People's Army; Regulations on Professional Soldiers; Ordinance on the People's Security Force; Ordinance on the People's Police Force); applicable to officers and professional soldiers, police officers and non-commissioned officers receiving salaries based on their years of service.

The allowance amount: After five years of service (full 60 months), they receive 5% of the military rank salary or position salary. From the sixth year onwards, an additional 1% is added each year.

2. National defense and security service allowance: applicable to employees working in the armed forces.

The allowance includes two levels: 30% and 50% of the rank or position salary depending on the working conditions.

3. Continue the additional food allowance for special military branches.

Article 6. When working overtime beyond the standard hours, the overtime pay is calculated at 150% of the standard hourly wage if worked on regular days; 200% of the standard hourly wage if worked on weekly rest days or holidays.

Article 7. During the probationary period or internship, the individual receives 85% of the standard salary of the rank to which they will be appointed.

Article 8. Abolish the electricity subsidy, housing subsidy, education subsidy, price stabilization subsidy; additional allowances or subsidies for certain groups in the judiciary, prosecution, inspection, economic arbitration, education, health, culture, meteorology, national reserves, military, police, etc.; additional income from sources such as tuition fees, medical fees, registration fees, etc.; the meal allowance adjustment system for officers and non-commissioned officers in the armed forces, telegraph corps; the daily travel and annual leave travel expense reimbursement system (except for some categories, detailed guidance provided by the Ministry of Labor - Invalids and Social Affairs - Finance - Government Organizational and Cadre Department).

Article 9. Civil servants, administrative officials, public service employees, officers, and other personnel receiving salaries in the armed forces must contribute a portion of their wages towards social insurance and health insurance as prescribed by the State.

Article 10. The implementation of the salary system must ensure the following principles:Doing what work entitles one to receive salary for that work; holding a civil servant or public official rank entitles one to be classified under that rank.

When ceasing to hold an elected position, one retains the original salary for six months, after which the salary is adjusted according to the new work performed.

New salary classification must be linked to reorganizing organizational structures and staffing of administrative agencies and public services institutions; it is necessary to reassess the functions of civil servants and public officials based on professional standards, those who cannot handle their current specialized work should be downgraded in rank or grade, or dealt with through other policies.

Ensuring internal unity, workers and public officials are encouraged, improving work efficiency.

Allocate salary funds corresponding to approved staffing levels to gradually implement salary budgeting in administrative agencies and public service institutions.

Those working in business organizations under administrative agencies and public service institutions and military forces not included in administrative or public service staffing, the State will not provide salary funds but apply the salary system like enterprises.

Article 11. The Government's Organization and Cadre Management Department, the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs, and the Ministry of Finance shall coordinate with relevant ministries managing education, health, culture and information, science, sports, etc., to establish new salary systems replacing the current monthly salary system; classify units with revenue and gradually convert these units to economic accounting operations, generating income, ensuring operational funding and salaries; at the same time, consider handling some special allowances and submit them to the Prime Minister for decision.

Article 12. Economic public service units, including those already receiving State salary funds based on staffing levels, must now switch to a system of receiving government orders or economic contracts; the State will not allocate staffing levels and salary funds for these units.

Article 13. The Government's Organization and Cadre Management Department classifies organizations (General Bureaus, Bureaus, etc.); establishes standards and uniformly manages civil servant and public official ranks as the basis for training, recruitment, appointment, promotion, and transfer of ranks and grades.

Article 14.

Starting from 1994, the promotion of ranks and grades will be regulated by the Government's Organization and Cadre Management Department based on the following principle:

Promotion of ranks and grades must be based on job requirements and examinations.

Promotion of grades is based on years of service in the rank (2, 3, and 4 years) and job performance.

The Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs, in collaboration with the Government's Organization and Cadre Management Department and the Ministry of Finance, will guide the transition from old to new salary classifications; develop plans for implementing new salaries; review and distribute additional salary funds from the state budget for ministries, sectors, and localities to ensure the total increase in salary funds does not exceed the 1993 state budget plan.

Starting from 1994, the Government's Organization and Cadre Management Department and the Ministry of Finance will guide the unified management system at the central level regarding staffing and salary funds within the state budget sector.

The Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs, after reaching agreement with the Ministry of Finance, will guide the implementation of allowance regulations stipulated in Article 4 of this Decree. For the special allowance, the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs will cooperate with the Ministry of Finance and the General Statistics Office to specify and guide its implementation.

The Ministries of Defense and Interior, and the Government's Telecommunications Management Board, after reaching agreement with the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs and the Ministry of Finance, will guide the implementation of regulations concerning military forces under their jurisdiction.

The Ministry of Finance will review and correct unreasonable non-salary income, manage the state budget according to established financial norms and revenue-expenditure plans approved by the National Assembly, ensuring sufficient state budget resources to implement the new salary system.

The Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs, the Government's Organization and Cadre Management Department, and the Ministry of Finance will collaborate with relevant agencies to guide the implementation of Resolution No. 35-NQ/UBTVQHK9 dated May 17, 1993, of the Standing Committee of the National Assembly approving the salary scale for elected positions, professional salary scales for the judiciary and prosecution, and Decision No. 69-QĐ/TƯ dated May 17, 1993, of the Central Committee's Secretariat temporarily regulating the new salary system for Party and mass organization cadres and staff.

Article 15. Ministers, heads of ministerial-level agencies, and provincial People's Committees directly responsible for organizing restructuring, establishing steering committees to review and assess civil servants and public officials, transferring to new salary classifications as prescribed by the State, reviewing and compiling plans for submission to the inter-ministerial review by the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs, the Government's Organization and Cadre Management Department, and the Ministry of Finance. Ministries, sectors, and localities can only implement the new salary system after inter-ministerial approval and obtaining retroactive payment according to the salary level specified on April 1, 1993.

Article 16. In the plans for implementing the new salary system submitted to the inter-ministerial body, ministries, sectors, and localities must report non-salary income provided by their own agencies or localities.

This Decree takes effect from April 1, 1993.

Article 17. Deductions made from salaries will be redefined to align with the new salary system.

Provisions on salaries, allowances, and subsidies contrary to this Decree are abolished.

The Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs, the Ministry of Finance, and the Government's Organization and Cadre Management Department are responsible for guiding the implementation of this Decree and establishing inter-ministerial teams to inspect and review the plans for implementing the new salary system of ministries, sectors, and localities.

Article 18. The Ministry of Labor - Invalids and Social Affairs, the Ministry of Finance, and the Government’s Organizational and Cadre Board shall be responsible for guiding the implementation of this Decree and establishing inter-ministerial inspection teams to review and approve the plans for implementing the new salary system of the ministries, sectors, and localities.

Article 19. The Minister, Heads of Ministries equivalent to Ministries, Agencies under the Government, Chairmen of People's Committees at provincial level and centrally governed cities are responsible for implementing this Decree./.