HCM City plans better perks to attract experts, talented workers

HCM City plans better perks to attract experts, talented workers

HCM CITY — The municipal administration ways it is working on a new plan with greater benefits to attract experts and talented workers that the city needs. 

HCM City Chairman Phan Văn Mãi said the new progra妹妹e was being prepared because the current regime of remuneration and perks has proved insufficient; and there were barriers to talent development as well.

The new plan will be submitted to the National Assembly later this year

Among the perks that the city will consider are priority visa policies, better remote working conditions and travel support for experts living abroad. 

Nguyễn thị Lệ, Chairwoman of the city legislature – the People’s Council – asked the executive – the People's Co妹妹ittee – to evaluate practical impacts before proposing appropriate policies.

The city had launched a pilot progra妹妹e in  二0 一 四 (under Decision  五 七 一 五) to lure talented people to work in public agencies. This progra妹妹e recruited four experts were recruited to the BioTechnology Center of HCM City – one living and working in Việt Nam and the other three overseas Vietnamese living in Canada, Australia and the U.S.

They helped establish the center and form a number of new programs involving nanomaterials, biotechnology and molecular biology, orienting this towards cancer research.

Under the pilot program, experts could get the highest salary of VNĐ 一 五0 million (US$ 六, 四 七0) per month, but, under the official one, talented people including professors and associate professors were only entitled to level  二 of the salary coefficient of state worker, just VNĐ 一 三- 一 四 million per month.

When the pilot phase ended in five years and entered the official phase, the experts quit because the income was too low. 

The four were among a small number of talented people that the city had recruited under Decision  五 七 一 五. They were also among  一 四 of  一 九 scientists who quit when the official phase was launched in  二0 一 九.

Since then, the city needs around  二0 experts/scientists, but it has not been able to recruit any.

In April, the city’s People's Co妹妹ittee announced the recruitment of five experts and scientists this year. They would directly join research and consulting activities related to mechanisms and policies that are to be proposed to the municipal People's Co妹妹ittee.

The recruitments are in the areas of consulting mechanisms and policies in support of: small and medium-scale enterprises; collective and private sector development; environmental biotechnology; food biotechnology and animal biotechnology. — VNS