Vietnam - Teachers to receive seniority allowances

Teachers who have been teaching for 5 years or more will receive a monthly seniority allowance as of May 1, according to a joint circular recently issued by several ministries.

According to the circular issued by the education, internal affairs, finance, and labor ministries, the allowance will be equal to 5% of teachers’ existing salaries, and 1 percentage point will be added for each additional year.

This circular came after many teachers complained that they should have received the allowance last September as stipulated by a government decree dated 2 months earlier, but for red tape.

School officials later explained to the teachers that they had to wait for a circular to explain the execution of the decree. A representative of the education ministry went on to confirm this delay.

The seniority allowance was first supplied to teachers in 1988, but was scrapped 5 years later.

In Vietnam, an explanatory document such as a circular is often needed before a legal document can be implemented.

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