President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) yesterday threw his backing behind a reform initiative to revamp the evaluation system for public servants, but emphasized the measure must be legal and constitutional.
Presidential Office Spokesman Lo Chih-chiang (羅智強) said the current assessment method was problematic and unfair to hard-working civil servants.
“It is the administration’s goal to push for reform of the Civil Servants Evaluation Act (公務人員考績法) in a legal ... and logical fashion,” Lo quoted Ma as saying.
Lo made the remarks after Ma heard a report from Minister of Civil Service Chang Che-chen (張哲琛) on his plan to amend the Civil Servants Evaluation Act, which would establish an exit mechanism for incompetent public officials. Also present were Examination Yuan President John Kuan (關中), Premier Wu Den-yih (吳敦義), Legislative Speaker Wang Jin-pyng (王金平) and Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) legislators.
Under the ministry’s proposal, regardless of the quality of the public servants, at least 3 percent of the staff at each government agency will receive a C and if a staff member obtains three Cs in a row, he or she would be fired or asked to take early retirement.
Under current regulations, public officials are rated on a scale of one to 100 each year. Only those who receive less than 60 points are fired. The Act also stipulates that those who receive the poorest evaluation are those found to have sown discord, undermined discipline or to have caused harm to the nation by dereliction of duty.
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