Gyeonggi Province to Hire 990 Part-Time Government Employees by 2017

Gyeonggi Province has decided to create a total of 990 part-time job positions by 2017 and requested cooperation from each city and county and their subordinate public institutions.

On the 18th, Gyeonggi Province held a roundtable conference at the Gyeonggi Human Resources Development Institute, attended by vice governors of 31 cities and counties within the province and heads of some 10 public institutions, where it announced cooperative measures for major projects by each department next year, including the contents above.

The province stated on that day that to expand public sector jobs, it plans to hire a total of 990 part-time government employees by 2017, and urged active cooperation from cities, counties, and subordinate institutions in hiring part-time staff.

Participants held a business agreement ceremony on part-time job creation that day and agreed to mutually cooperate to spread part-time job creation in the public sector to the private sector and achieve a 70% employment rate.

Under this agreement, the province and the 31 cities and counties decided to jointly promote early recruitment of part-time general-duty civil servants to be introduced from 2014, conversion of full-time civil servants to part-time work arrangements, and improvement of the total personnel cost system to create jobs suited to local conditions.

In addition, to ensure stable settlement, they decided to discover appropriate positions that concentrate during specific hours and utilize specialized knowledge, such as librarians and vocational counselors.

Part-time government employees are general-duty civil servants who work four hours per day, shorter than the standard eight-hour workday.

The fields include document reception and official vehicle driving, library book organization, health center operations, vehicle registration, permits and certificate distribution, welfare recipient management, parking enforcement, water meter reading, debt collection, advertising enforcement, provincial assembly stenography, foreign language interpretation and translation, agricultural machinery repair, and legal and accounting consultation.

Park Su-young, First Vice Governor of Gyeonggi Province, said, "Although the financial situation is difficult, I urge all vice governors and heads of public institutions to fully understand the overall direction of provincial administration, cooperate with one another, and do their best to improve the quality of life of residents."