Amendment to Civil Service Appointment Decree to Take Effect Early Next Year
Full Duration of Parental Leave Recognized for Promotion Career
Retroactive Application Possible for Previously Taken Parental Leave
From now on, the entire period of parental leave for public officials will be recognized as career experience for promotion regardless of the number of children. The period of parental leave already taken will also be applied retroactively.
The Ministry of Personnel Management announced that the amendment to the Public Officials Appointment Decree containing this provision passed the Cabinet meeting on the 31st. The amendment is scheduled to be promulgated in early January next year and will take effect immediately.
According to the amendment, the entire period of parental leave will be recognized as work experience for promotion regardless of the number of eligible children.
Public officials can take parental leave for up to 3 years per child, but previously, only up to 1 year of parental leave for the first child was recognized as work experience (minimum years required for promotion), while the entire period of leave was recognized as work experience only for the second child and beyond.
However, going forward, all public officials will be able to use parental leave as needed, and the entire period of parental leave will be recognized as promotion experience regardless of the number of eligible children.
In particular, the amendment stipulates that parental leave taken before the effective date of the amendment will also be retroactively recognized as career experience if it was taken at the current rank.
Additionally, those recruited through separate recruitment who have pre-determined work locations or institutions will be allowed to transfer to other regions or institutions for childcare and maternity protection even if the mandatory assignment period (5 years) has not passed.
The scope of payment for acting duty allowance will also be expanded.
Until now, only those acting for public officials on parental leave or on official sick leave could receive the acting duty allowance, but from now on, acting personnel for all types of leave will be eligible for the allowance.
To allow public officials to take parental leave freely without concerns about work gaps, the replenishment of vacancies for those on parental leave will be broadly recognized.
Previously, vacancies could only be filled through recruitment or transfer if parental leave for the same child lasted more than 6 months, but going forward, consecutive parental leave of more than 6 months for different children will also allow vacancy replenishment.
For example, if a public official takes 3 months of parental leave for the first child and then 4 months for the second child consecutively, vacancy replenishment will be possible.
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