Accordingly, cadres, civil servants, public employees with excellent professional performances but yet enjoying the final salary grade within their salary schedule for their category or position shall be considered for one-step salary increment for a maximum of 12 months earlier than described. For each year, the proportion of cadres, civil servants, public employees to be entitled to such accelerated salary increment must not exceed 10% of the total number of the staff members on their permanent salary payment list (under the previous regulation, the maximum level of 5%).

Besides, the new Decree also supplements subjects of application in Table 2 “Profession salary schedule applicable to cadres and civil servants in the State agencies” promulgated together with the Decree No. 204/2004/ND-CP. At the same time, it amends the name

“Categories of public employees” into “Professional titles of public employees” and supplement subjects of application in Table 3 “Profession salary schedules applicable to cadres and public employees in the State non-business units”.

Of which, it amends 05 subjects into the civil servants of type A3; 06 subjects into the civil servants of type A2.1; 08 subjects into the civil servants of type A1; 07 subjects in to the civil servants of type B and amends “Guardian of stockpile” into the civil servants of type C….

For the salary increment table “Salary increment schedule applicable to officers in the people’s army, and officers and non-commissioned officers in the people’s public security forces”, the Government decides to increase the salary increment coefficient of four army ranks (General, Senior lieutenant-general, Lieutenant general, Brigadier) to 11.00; 10.40; 9.80; 9.20 respectively (under the previous regulation, they are 10.40; 9.80; 9.20; 8.60 respectively). Time limit of salary increment for Brigadier, Lieutenant general, Senior lieutenant-general and general shall be 4 years.

This Decree takes effect on April 10, 2013.

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