Proposal to increase regional minimum wages from July 1, 2022

On the afternoon of March 28, a meeting on Region minimum wage of the National Wage Council under the chairmanship of Mr. Le Van Thanh – Deputy Minister of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs, Chairman of the National Wage Council. As is customary, this is a closed discussion and does not involve the press.

Mr. Ngo Duy Hieu – Vice President of the Vietnam General Confederation of Confederation – speaking at the meeting

Talking to Nguoi Lao Dong Newspaper, a member of the Council said that the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor (VGCL) proposed to increase the regional minimum wage for employees at enterprises from July 1, 2022.

At the meeting, through the speeches of the Council members, some Council members from state management agencies and independent experts also shared relatively consensus with the proposal to increase the salary from 1- 1. 7-2022 that the representative of employees proposed at the meeting,” said a member of the National Wage Council.

At the meeting, the representative of the Vietnam Confederation of Commerce and Industry (VCCI) – representing the employer – proposed to increase wages from January 1, 2023 instead of from July 1, 2022 of the General Confederation of Labor. Vietnam.

According to a representative of the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor, there are many reasons to increase wages for employees from July 1, 2022. Firstly, according to Resolution No. 27-NQ/TW dated May 21, 2018 of the Central Committee on reforming salary policy for cadres, civil servants, public employees, armed forces and employees In enterprises, from 2021, the State periodically adjusts regional minimum wages on the basis of recommendations of the National Wage Council. Enterprises are entitled to implement salary policy on the basis of negotiation and agreement between the employer and the employee and the representative of the worker’s collective; The state does not directly intervene in the wage policy of enterprises.

Adjusting the regional minimum wages to ensure the minimum living standards of employees and their families, in relation to factors of the labor market and socio-economic development (supply – demand) labor force, economic growth rate, consumer price index, labor productivity, employment, unemployment, enterprise affordability…).

However, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, employees share with businesses’ difficulties, so in 2021, the regional minimum wage will not be adjusted. The latest adjustment of regional minimum wages is from January 1, 2020 with region I of 4.42 million VND; Region II 3.92 million; Region III 3.42 million and Region IV 3.07 million.

“I know that businesses are still facing many difficulties, but workers are also very difficult. It is clear that the endurance of workers has also reached the threshold to consider adjusting the regional minimum wage in the context of the consumer price index. prices rise and fall a lot, workers’ lives face many difficulties,” he said.

(According to Employee)