Payroll system: How to reform the salary policy effectively?

How to reform the salary policy or payroll system in direction to make the breakthrough, how to ensure that labors can live with their salaries? Managers and experts together discuss and exchange their point of view in the monthly talks.

Mr. Pham Minh Huan, Deputy Minister of Labour and Social Affairs: "Reform of salary cannot generalize"

When discussing with experts on the salary policy from Japan and Korea, they think that we talk too much but lacks of specific solutions. Speaking and leaving, the problems are still outstanding. According to their point, the salary reform issues now is how to have an overall authority to assist the Government, and then have a specific strategy for each sector, and then again as for every enterprise. The state authorities, the supervisory authorities also support to implement reforms the payroll system. If any generalities as urgent without specific measures, the situation still would, even worse.

Overall problem of salary must also specify the route that match of the capabilities of enterprises and the economy and the degree of integration with the region and the world.

When deciding on a minimum salary at a specific level, we also need count the factors in regional competitiveness. Investors, they are ready they see the quality of human resources, how the system of preferential policies like, and how simply the administrative procedures are and cost of labor is expensive or cheap. But, in fact, our minimum salary in 2016 was 2.4 million, calculated or approximately 110 USD, while Myanmar's minimum salary provisions are only 73 USD.

Professor Mr. Thai Vinh Thang, former Dean of Administration - the State - Hanoi Law University: "Do not pay under Egalitarian"

The payroll system in Vietnam has traditionally low. Apparently, the hard salary of State applied when I am a professor, senior lecturer, former dean is only 7 million / month. So, the salary policy has been reformed in which way to let the workers live by salary? I think that the civil servants of us are too many. In other countries, public servants are working for the State only. But in our county, civil servants are working in both the mass organizations, and social organizations. Increasing salary to ensure adequate living wage but it's hard to want to streamline increasing of number of civil servants. But how could not immediately be streamlining.

Although reform in any direction, they still have narrowed the scope of pay back. Wages paid have to compare with the other countries in Asia. On the other hand, we must have a policy of meritocracy, not egalitarism.