The Feasibility of Contractual Employees and Temporary Staff in Place of Junior Officer Jobs in Government

• Main Authors: Hsing-Wei Hsiao, 蕭欣瑋
• Other Authors: 彭錦鵬
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2014
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/44927205873528813090

碩士 === 國立臺灣大學 === 政治學研究所 === 102 === Due to democratization and political and economic changes, public demand on government services is constantly increasing in Taiwan for the past decades. Considering the deteriorated financial situation, the government uses various hiring methods to reduce personnel cost. Although the Central Government Agency Personnel Quota Law limits the headcount of public officers to cap the personnel expenditure for the central government, flexible hiring of contractual and temporary staff who are not counted by the Quota Law is not unusual for the government. This study focuses on the feasibility for contractual and temporary staff as a replacement for Junior Officers with full civil service protection. Hiring contractual personnel surely will reduce the headcount of permanent civil officers so that personnel cost can be cut while maintaining same level of public services. This study explores the practices of personnel laws on flexible personnel management, and examines the development of the personnel laws in the advanced countries. It finds out that current personnel cost and staff management system needs to be adjusted. Based on the case study on Junior Officer Jobs and contractual staff in New Taipei City Government, this study proposes the following reform strategies: 1) Establishing a clear and uniform guideline on government personnel cost as soon as possible. 2) Formulating central and local staff management standards. 3) Establishing clear plans to ensure personnel headcounts reduction in line with the policy of “staff increase and reduction based on personnel need”. 4) Adopting the hiring channels that based on the review of job analysis and hiring cost. 5) Establishing a financially sound policy on pension plans.