The government of Vietnam is planning a proposal to increase monthly salary for state-owned companies and foreign-invested ones in 2010, the local newspaper Vietnam Economic Times reported Wednesday.
According to the proposal, monthly salary of employees working for state-owned companies will be increase by 20 to 38 percent in 2010 from the current 650,000 Vietnamese dong (36.5 U.S. dollars) a month to about 750,000 to 780,000 Vietnamese dong (42 to 45.8 U. S. dollars).
Those working for the foreign invested ones will enjoy a salary increase by 13 to 15 percent.
The proposal, which is a part of the government's approved program of raising salary in the period from 2008 to 2010, aims to ensure common benefits of state-owned companies and foreign- invested ones by 2012.
The government has assigned Vietnam's Ministry of War, Invalids and Social Affairs to build the plan and submit it to the government within this month.