The Legislative Yuan today passed a bill that would allow more civil servants to take unpaid leave to care for grandchildren, as well as ease restrictions on the appointment of dispatched personnel, or “temporary limited employees.”
Lawmakers passed a supplementary resolution related to Article 28-1 of the Civil Service Employment Act (公務人員任用法) instructing the Ministry of Civil Service to relax eligibility for civil servants to apply for unpaid “grandparental leave.”
On June 5, the Legislative Yuan’s Judiciary and Organic Laws and Statutes Committee examined the proposed changes to the act, including a grandparental leave clause.
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Due to ongoing controversy surrounding grandparental leave, the ruling and opposition parties agreed not to revise the legal text itself, but passed a supplementary resolution requesting the ministry to revise relevant provisions in the Regulations on Unpaid Leave for Civil Servants (公務人員留職停薪辦法) within three months.
The ministry was also requested to publicize the right of civil servants to apply for unpaid leave to care for grandchildren.
The amendments were proposed to relieve the burden on families with children and make civil servants more inclined to have children, Weng said.
The ministry said that guidelines currently state that civil servants can take leave to care for children under three years of age, which already allows grandparents to make use of the policy.
It suggested revising regulations on unpaid leave based on legislators’ proposals.
A separate change to Article 36-1 of the act passed today allows “temporary limited employees” who do not meet rank and qualification requirements to continue to be employed after the repeal of an act that used to govern such workers.
The rule applies to those working within the same central third-level agency and its subordinate bodies, or within a first-level agency under a special municipality government and its subordinate agencies.
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