Temporary health workers to become permanent in January
Two ministerial regulations upgrading 117,000 non-medical temporary employees nationwide to permanent-employee status are complete and should take effect in January, Deputy Public Health Minister Cholnan Srikaew said yesterday.
The ministerial regulations were issued as a New Year gift to the employees.
Visiting Nan’s Sung Men Hospital for a policy briefing with health personnel yesterday, Cholnan said the two regulations were being considered by the Finance Ministry before being proposed to the public health minister and permanent secretary for approval. The first regulation establishes six committees to administer criteria for permanent employees’ work, qualifications, selection, payment, welfare, work assessment and criteria for resignation during the contract period. The second regulation amends funding criteria.
Deputy Public Health permanent secretary Supan Srithamma said permanent-employee status meant better career security, as the salary would be 1.2 times higher than that of a civil servant, while welfare benefits would be equivalent to those of civil servants including provident fund, study leave, salary-hike assessment, bonus, paid leave, travel allowance and meeting allowance.
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