Journal of Civil Service(Abstract)

A Legal Study of Civil Service Pay System

• Post Date：11/30/2011
• Unit Name：Editing and Compilation Office

A Legal Study of Civil Service Pay System

Hui-Ping Feng*

Abstract

Based on the fact that the basic livelihood of a civil servant cnnnot be supported without payments from the government, the Payment Right should be the most significant among the bacic rights for all employees in the Civil Service. And it is crucial for a government because better payment may pro-vide more attractive incentives for those who want to work in the public agencies and stay longer. Meanwhile, good salaries can be helpful for mak-ing civil servants more satisfied with their working conditions, thus both the quality and efficiency of public service may be enhanced. From this point of view, a well-functioning payment system for civil service is extremely im-portant for the government to recruit, use, and to retain qualified workers.

This article, focusing on the subject of Civil service Payment, will use theories or principles like “Correspondent Grant”, “Livlihood Supporting”, “Grade Status of Civil Service”, “Preventing Corruption with High Salaries”, and “Legalizing the Paying System for Civil Service” to construct a blue-print of the whole practice for our government’s payment system . Next, the past experiece of how our pay system worked will be introduced as a tool to make a thorough review of the system, which makes us realize how badly the blurring job requirements for personnel of the Execuative Yuan and the Examination Yuan influence our pay system, and makes it so difficult to be legalized. Finally, some dvices are provided honestly for our government to amend relevant acts to improve our pay system.

Keywords: Civil Service Pay System, Payment Right, Correspondent Grant, Livlihood Supporting, Grade Status of Civil Service

* Executive Officer, Centra Personnel Administration.