1,516 CIVIL SERVANTS HOLD OTHER POSITIONS ILLEGALLY, 42 IMPEACHED|1516位公務員違法兼職 42人遭彈劾

A recent government audit found more than 1,500 government officials illegally moonlighting as board members, chairs or advisors in the private sector, and a total of 42 of them have been impeached. But now, pan-blue legislators say low-level civil servants should be allowed to have a second job as they are poorly paid. Pan-green legislators, however, do not agree. Legally, civil servants cannot hold other posts or jobs. The National Audit Office found that civil servants at all levels, all over the country took positions as company owners, Chairs or advisors. One thousand and thirteen of these received administrative punishment. Four hundred and sixty-one cases were transferred to the Civil Service Disciplinary Committee for punishment. Another 42 were impeached by the Control Yuan and had their cases transferred to the CSDC for punishment. This makes a total of 1.516 civil servants. The majority of those investigated were middle- and high-tier civil servants. Kuomintang Legislator Lin Teh-fu thinks that low-tier civil servants have low wages which are insufficient to raise a family and so he proposed an amendment, that if low-tier civil servants wages were not 1.5 times that of the city or county's minimum wage, and if there were no conflict of interest, and with the permission of their manager, they could take on a part-time job. ==LIN TEH-FU KMT Legislator== Low-tier civil servants' wages are low, those with many family members can't make ends meet. Then you tell them they can't get a part-time job, I think this is unfair. ==TSENG MING-TSONG KMT Legislator== With certain limits, they should be allowed to do part-time jobs, but the important point is if there is an opportunity to raise low-tier civil servants' wages, it should be a priority. However, Democratic Progressive Party legislators think that the basic law prohibits civil servants from taking part-time jobs, no matter what their level, if an amendment is made to the law to allow this, it will have an impact on all levels. == LEE CHUN-YI DPP Legislator== Civil servants must exercise public power. So there is a lot that must be avoided. You can't say because some civil servants are paid less, they can just start a part-time job. I think it is not appropriate. == LIU CHAO-HAO DPP Legislator== Of course, there are still some civil servants, who, after work go and do other jobs, our law is standard, if it is clearly forbidden to do so, at least not so many will flout the law, for considerations like the public trust of civil servants, this needs careful consideration. Although pan-blue and pan-green legislators' views differ on the issue, they are united in opposition to civil servants appearing as company owners, Chairs, advisors and so on and have no intention of relaxing regulations on this. TRANSLATED BY：CLARE LEAR 審計部清查發現，到今年5月11日，全國有1516位公務員違法兼任公司負責人、董事及監察人，其中42人遭監察院彈劾。不過有藍營立委認為，有些基層公務員薪水太低無法養家，因此提案修法，讓收入較低的公僕可以有條件兼職，不過綠營立委反對。 依法公務員不能兼職，不過審計部調查發現，全國各級政府公務員兼任公司商號負責人、董事及監察人身分者，受到行政懲處的有1013人，移送公務員懲戒委員會遭懲處的有461人，另外經監察院彈劾並移送公務員懲戒委員會的有42人，總計有1516人，不過這些被查到的公務員大多是中高階公務員，但國民黨立委林德福認為有些基層公務員薪水不高，根本無法維持家庭開銷所以提案修法，如果公務員家庭收入無法達到所在縣市最低生活費的1.5倍，在沒有利益衝突並獲得主管評估同意下，可以開放兼職。 ==國民黨立委 林德福== 基層的他們領得很少 有的家庭人口眾多 他根本就沒有辦法生活 你又匡一個說 不能讓他去兼職打工 我認為對他們是不公平 ==國民黨立委 曾銘宗== 有限的條件之下讓他兼職 這部分 基本上我贊成 但是最重要的是 以後有加薪的機會 低層的公務員要優先要加薪 不過民進黨立委認為相關法令本來就禁止公務人員兼職，不管是中高階或基層公務人員，如果修法開放，將會造成很大影響。 ==民進黨立委 李俊俋== 因為他是公務員 所以他必須行使公權力 所以有很多他必須迴避的 只因為公務員的薪水較低 然後就開放公務員兼職 我想不太適當 ==民進黨立委 劉櫂豪== 當然還是有些公務員 我相信還是有些人 可能是在下班之後 去做一些額外的工作 總是我們法律有一個 明文禁止規定的話 不至於說太普遍性 也包括 人民對公務人員的信任等等 我覺得這個都應該全部去考慮的 雖然藍綠立委對於是否開放基層公務員兼職有不同意見，不過立委們不分藍綠還是對於公務員身兼公司商號負責人、董事及監察人身分不能認同，也沒打算對此部份進行開放。 記者 張志雄 陳立峰 台北報導