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CPA backs Jennifer Wang over agency appointments

The Central Personnel Administration (CPA) yesterday defended the Council of Labor Affairs (CLA) over its recent decision to make six positions in two of its subordinated agencies into politically appointed positions.

CLA Minister Jennifer Wang (王如玄) recently demanded that the head and deputy of the Bureau of Labor Insurance, the agency’s chief secretary, the head of the Labor Insurance Audit Commission, and the institution’s senior specialist and its chief secretary sign an agreement promising that they would leave their positions if Wang resigned.

The move sparked controversy because it seemed to usurp the authority of the premier, who has the final say on appointees of government agencies that are run like state-owned businesses.

The CPA said that it would respect Wang’s new regulations as the law allows for heads of Cabinet-level departments to use discretionary power to promulgate such measures, but the CPA added that the legality of the rules remained open to discussion.

“Two of the six positions, the heads of the Bureau of Labor Insurance and the Labor Insurance Audit Commission, shall be decided by the premier,” CPA Chief Secretary Chang Nien-chung (張念中) said.

It has been reported that three officials appointed by the former Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) administration — He Tuan-fan (賀端蕃), vice president of the Bureau of Labor Insurance, the bureau’s former chief-secretary Chen Hung-ta (陳鴻達) and Tang Yun-teng (唐雲騰), senior specialist at the Labor Insurance Audit Commission, had refused to resign when the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) government took office. The three were later relieved of their positions.
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