Increase the flexibility of agency employment! Examination Yuan will pass loosening restrictions on job allocation at the grassroots level

The Examination Yuan Council today revised and passed a draft amendment to Article 7 of the staff allocation guidelines for professional titles and official grades in various agencies, loosening restrictions on the allocation of grassroots positions to increase the flexibility of employment in agencies. (Provided by the Examination Yuan)

Loosen job allocation and increase staff flexibility! The Examination Yuan today passed the requirement that all agencies should set minimum staffing standards for the appointment of first-level to third-level basic-level positions, hoping to help recruit and retain talents, stimulate colleagues' work morale, and increase the attractiveness of applying for public offices, thereby enhancing the overall manpower utilization efficiency of the government.

Currently, for agencies with a staff size of 30 or more, there are minimum standards for appointing 1 or 2 people to primary-level positions from the first to the third level, depending on whether the number of employees reaches 100. The Examination Yuan Council today revised and approved the draft amendment to Article 7 of the Staff Allocation Guidelines for Professional Titles and Official Grades in various agencies, allowing agencies to decide whether to set up such grassroots positions based on the nature of their business to increase employment flexibility. The revised draft will be promulgated and implemented after submitting a letter to the Executive Yuan for approval.

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The Examination Yuan explained that considering that in recent years, most of the routine and transactional work at the grassroots level of various agencies has been handled through business outsourcing or information technology. In addition, the organizational scale, business nature and level of responsibilities of each agency are different, and the manpower requirements for grassroots positions are also different. Moreover, the salary and benefits of upper-level positions are less conducive to the recruitment and retention of talents. Therefore, the minimum allocation standard limit has been revised and deleted, giving each agency the flexibility to decide whether to select and rank these positions into professional titles and positions based on organizational operations and business needs.

The Examination Yuan further stated that this revision is in response to the increasingly diversified development trend of government agencies' business types and manpower utilization methods. While maintaining the reasonable structure of brief, recommended and appointed official positions, the minimum allocation restrictions for grass-roots positions are relaxed, so that each agency can timely adjust the manpower allocation of various levels of positions according to different business needs.