Tiếng ViệtTet is coming, are you looking forward to Tet bonuses? So today let’s find out whether Tet bonuses are mandatory regulations for businesses or not?
In fact, there are many companies that call Tet bonus the 13th month salary. There are companies with good business and good benefits, and there are also 14th and 15th month salaries. For those of you whose salary of a few dozen is still warm, right?
There are also no provisions stipulating whether the Tet bonus is the 13th month’s salary or whether the Tet bonus is not the 13th month’s salary or not, so businesses balance, regulate and pay themselves. Therefore, there will be businesses that give separate Tet bonuses and separate 13th month salary bonuses.
Tet is a big holiday for Vietnamese people and usually, on big holidays, we often give gifts to each other to show our thanks and connection as well as wish each other a happy holiday, but in reality, The more money you have, the happier your holidays are, right? As for the 13th month salary, it usually depends on the production and business results of that enterprise and decides whether or not to give a bonus and how much.
The 13th month salary is usually paid at the end of the fiscal year, so it often falls on Tet holiday, so many companies combine it into a Tet bonus. Because it is called the 13th month salary, many workers assume that this is something businesses must do. But in reality, Tet bonus and 13th month salary are not mandatory.
In Clause 1, Article 6 of the 2019 Labor Code stipulates the Rights and obligations of employers:
Employers have the following rights:
a) Recruitment, placement, management, administration and supervision of labor; reward and handle violations of labor discipline.
Because it is a right, the employer can exercise it or not. That is, you can exercise your rights or not exercise your rights.
At the same time, Article 104 of the Code 2019 stipulates bonuses as follows:
1. Bonus is the amount of money or property or in other forms that the employer rewards the employee based on the employee’s production and business results and job completion level.
2. Bonus regulations are decided by the employer and publicly announced at the workplace after consulting with the grassroots employee representative organization for places where there is an employee representative organization at the workplace. department.
Thus, the bonus is not mandatory but will be based on production and business results, the level of work completion of the employee, even on holidays such as April 30 – May 1 or National Day on the 2nd. /9, if the company does not give bonuses, it is not against the regulations.
However, that is from a legal perspective, but from a human resources perspective, I still wish that companies could build bonus funds, have clear bonus policies and, above all, have Tet bonuses. Lunar New Year for workers. This is the longest, largest holiday and imbued with traditional culture of Vietnamese people. It is the time to meet members and give congratulatory gifts to have a prosperous and peaceful new year. There are workers who only return home once a year or even once every few years, so the expenses are also very high. Tet bonus is also temporarily called a compensation for expenses incurred on this occasion.
Tet bonus is not simply an extra amount of money to spend, but also a recognition of the contributions, efforts, and work efficiency of employees throughout the year and is also a motivation for employees to continue to stick with company.
Therefore, companies should not be too strict and think that if the law does not require it, they should not do it, and employees should not be too demanding because they think it is an obvious thing that businesses must do.
If we understand and share, everything will definitely be fine.
