National Assembly deputies continued their discussions on increasing
salaries for poor and low-income earners on October 31 during the eighth
session of the 13th National Assembly.
Many deputies said
the salaries paid to leaders of State management agencies had drained
the funds needed to increase payments for poor workers.
Deputy
Tran Dinh Nha from Thua Thien – Hue asked how the NA would cope with
this, pointing out that there were 139,000 State management agencies
nationwide with a huge number of leaders and deputies, which means huge
spending on their salaries.
He said the number of deputy leaders in these agencies must not exceed three.
In
terms of salary increases for poor and low-income earners, NA deputies
agreed that in 2015, regular expenditure except for salary payment
should be cut by 10 percent.
They asked the Government to
review a number of policies and the reason for failing to arrange funds
for salary increases in order to offer them in the future.-VNA