The highest Tet bonus is more than 300 million VND/person, the lowest is 300 thousand VND
As of December 23, many localities have begun to announce Lunar New Year bonuses for 2024. Accordingly, many workers receive Tet bonuses of up to a car, but in the opposite direction, many workers receive Tet bonuses of up to a car. I also felt sad because I didn’t get a Tet bonus or a bonus.
A report from the Department of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs of Hung Yen province, from a survey of 125 businesses, shows that the average income of workers is 8.2 million VND/month.
Regarding the New Year bonus, the highest bonus is 192 million VND, belonging to Kinh Do Northern Company Limited (Km22 National Highway 5A – Ban Yen Nhan Town, My Hao, Hung Yen) specializing in producing cakes from flour. The lowest reward is 100,000 VND.
In Hung Yen, the highest expected Lunar New Year bonus of 300 million VND belongs to Merap Group Joint Stock Company (Ba Khe village, Tan Tien commune, Van Giang district, Hung Yen). This company specializes in manufacturing drugs, pharmaceutical chemicals and medicinal materials.
At this moment, many workers and laborers are eagerly waiting for news of Tet bonuses from the company. Photo: Nguyet Ta
In addition, some companies in the industrial park with foreign investment have bonuses of over 50 million VND for workers and laborers such as Ochiai Vietnam Co., Ltd. and Wassenburg Medical Vietnam Co., Ltd.
Similarly in Thai Nguyen, Tet bonuses also tend to be lower than previous years. The highest Tet bonus in Thai Nguyen province is 341,456 million VND/month. The highest bonus level during the New Year is 80 million VND, while this level during the Lunar New Year is 130 million VND.
In Binh Thuan, the report of the Department of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs of Binh Thuan province shows that 62/200 businesses sent reports to the Department of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs of Binh Thuan province. Accordingly, the highest New Year 2024 bonus is 36 million VND/month for High-tech Seafood Company 2 – this is a foreign-invested enterprise.
According to a report by the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs, Vietnam has 33.632 million informal workers (accounting for more than 68% of the total number of workers). Informal workers account for a very high proportion in the agriculture, forestry and fisheries sectors, hired labor activities in households, construction, accommodation and food services…
Most informal workers have low wages and are unstable.
According to the Department of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs of Binh Thuan province, the highest average Lunar New Year bonus belongs to private enterprises at 6.9 million VND/month. And also in this type of business, the highest bonus is 91 million VND/month,
Meanwhile, in foreign-invested enterprises, the average bonus is 2.6 million VND/month and the highest bonus is 21.9 million VND/month belonging to Thang Long Seafood Company.
Confesses that a freelance worker has never once received a Tet bonus
While workers with labor contracts are holding their breath waiting for the announcement of Tet bonuses, nearly 70% of workers in the country – freelance workers working in the informal sector do not have Tet bonuses.
Every time Tet approaches, hearing people talking about celebrating Tet, Ms. Nguyen Thi Luong (42 years old), from Thuong Tin (Hanoi), feels sad. Her education level was low, she only finished 9th grade, so after 9th grade she applied to sell clothes, then worked as a restaurant server… It turned out to be a free and comfortable job, but the salary was low and she had never heard of it. Come enjoy Tet.
“Perhaps at the end of the year, the boss will only give a few hundred thousand more. If a kind person would give an extra gift-wrapped cake box, he won’t get a Tet bonus of a whole month’s salary or tens of millions of dong like other people,” Ms. Luong said sadly.
Sharing the same situation as Ms. Luong, millions of freelance workers also face Tet holidays without pay and bonuses. Not only that, they also face dozens of worries and chaos.
Instead of waiting for a Tet bonus, Mr. Giap chose to drive more to have more money to spend during Tet. Photo: NT
Just riding a motorbike from Ha Trung (Thanh Hoa) to Hanoi to run Grab, Mr. Nguyen Van Giap (27 years old) confided: Previously, the couple lived and worked as workers in Binh Duong. Life was difficult, the couple had to return to their hometown to work and live. But back home, work is also difficult. When I opened a restaurant, it went bankrupt for a while. Now his wife stays at home and runs the ao dai rental business, while he goes to the city to drive Grab.
“I didn’t study very much, so when I was 15 years old, I dropped out of school and went to work. I was self-employed, so I never knew a salary or bonus. During Tet, I had to worry about food, clothing, money, and gifts for my mother and father… So I have to try harder to earn a little more money,” Mr. Giap said.
Instead of working 8 hours a day, Mr. Giap may have to drive up to 12 hours a day. However, unlike before, despite working a lot, the average monthly income is only 10-12 million VND/month.
