The Legislative Yuan yesterday passed proposals allowing more civil servants to take unpaid leave to care for their 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 legislature’s Judiciary and Organic Laws and Statutes Committee reviewed proposed changes to the act, including a grandparental leave clause.
Photo: Wu Po-hsuan, Taipei Times
The amendments were proposed to relieve the burden on families with children and encourage civil servants to have children, Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Legislator Weng Hsiao-ling (翁曉玲) said.
The Ministry of Civil Service said that current guidelines already state that civil servants can take leave to care for children younger than three years old, which means grandparents can make use of this policy.
To resolve the issue, the ruling and opposition parties agreed not to revise the legal text itself, but instead 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.
A separate revision to Article 36-1 of the act passed a third reading yesterday, allowing “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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