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.
Environmental groups yesterday filed an appeal with the Executive Yuan, seeking to revoke the environmental impact assessment (EIA) conditionally approved in February for the Hsieh-ho Power Plant’s planned fourth liquefied natural gas (LNG) receiving station off the coast of Keelung. The appeal was filed jointly by the Protect Waimushan Seashore Action Group, the Wild at Heart Legal Defense Association and the Keelung City Taiwan Head Cultural Association, which together held a news conference outside the Executive Yuan in Taipei. Explaining the reasons for the appeal, Wang Hsing-chih (王醒之) of the Protect Waimushan Seashore Action Group said that the EIA failed to address
Taipei on Thursday held urban resilience air raid drills, with residents in one of the exercises’ three “key verification zones” reporting little to no difference compared with previous years, despite government pledges of stricter enforcement. Formerly known as the Wanan exercise, the air raid drills, which concluded yesterday, are now part of the “Urban Resilience Exercise,” which also incorporates the Minan disaster prevention and rescue exercise. In Taipei, the designated key verification zones — where the government said more stringent measures would be enforced — were Songshan (松山), Zhongshan (中山) and Zhongzheng (中正) districts. Air raid sirens sounded at 1:30pm, signaling the
The number of people who reported a same-sex spouse on their income tax increased 1.5-fold from 2020 to 2023, while the overall proportion of taxpayers reporting a spouse decreased by 4.4 percent from 2014 to 2023, Ministry of Finance data showed yesterday. The number of people reporting a spouse on their income tax trended upward from 2014 to 2019, the Department of Statistics said. However, the number decreased in 2020 and 2021, likely due to a drop in marriages during the COVID-19 pandemic and the income of some households falling below the taxable threshold, it said. The number of spousal tax filings rebounded
A saleswoman, surnamed Chen (陳), earlier this month was handed an 18-month prison term for embezzling more than 2,000 pairs of shoes while working at a department store in Tainan. The Tainan District Court convicted Chen of embezzlement in a ruling on July 7, sentencing her to prison for illegally profiting NT$7.32 million (US$248,929) at the expense of her employer. Chen was also given the opportunity to reach a financial settlement, but she declined. Chen was responsible for the sales counter of Nike shoes at Tainan’s Shinkong Mitsukoshi Zhongshan branch, where she had been employed since October 2019. She had previously worked
RSS