On 07/11/2018, the Government issued Decree No. 152/2018/ND-CP regulating some regimes for coaches and athletes during the training and competition period. This Decree takes effect on December 24th, 2018.
Accordingly, Decree 152/2018/ND-CP stipulates the following regimes:
• Salary; support money for training and competition;
• Social insurance; Health Insurance; unemployment insurance; insurance for occupational accidents and diseases; insurance when training, competing abroad and
• Bonus for the performance of coaches and athletes during the training and competition period.
Regarding the salary regime for coaches and athletes during the training and competition period, Decree No. 152/2018 / ND-CP stipulates the following:
Trainers and athletes that are Vietnamese citizens, are the member of the national team or national youth teams; Teams, young teams, talented teams in the fields, provinces and centrally-run cities, who are salaried from the state budget, shall be entitled to a salary as follows:
• Received fully salary during the training or competition period (including salary and wage allowances, if any) paid by the trainer or coach management agency;
• Received amount of supplementary money in case of the basic salary is calculated on average according to the number of ordinary working days in a month lower than the wage level prescribed in Clauses 2 and 3, Article 3.
The salary level calculated on the basis of the number of ordinary working days shall be determined according to the salary of the preceding month before the coaches or athletes are summoned for training or competition divided for 26 days.
It can be seen that the issuance of Decree 152/2018/ND-CP has shown the State’s attention to all aspects of the lives of coaches and athletes. At the same time, encouraging the above factors to actively training and strive for the development of the country sports.