Teacher Remuneration Act Article 9

The seniority that teachers at a public educational institution earned before their current appointment, working with a good performance record in any of the professional capacities indicated below, will be counted towards advancing their salary grade, based on the number of years of such prior work, to the maximum seniority salary applicable to the professional rank of the position to which they are appointed:1. Seniority earned by a ranked or registered civil servants in a position at an equivalent level; or by other persons in a position for which special and selection qualification regulations apply when assessing their qualifications; or by employees of a public enterprise; government affairs personnel; the president or principal of a public or private educational institution; lecturers; teaching assistants; professional technicians; researchers; nursing teachers; athletics coaches; professional members of staff of public social education institutions; or researchers at a public academic research institution.2. Their military seniority at an equivalent level of a military reservist who transfers to a teaching is taken into account.3. The seniority of an elementary or secondary school teacher accumulated when they worked as a regular substitute teacher will be advanced one level for each instance of their substitute teaching periods of three months or more amounting to a cumulative total of one full year.4. Work seniority in any other position which the Ministry of Education has recognized as being at an equivalent professional level.The seniority that a teacher at a public junior college, tertiary college, or university earned before their current appointment working in a position at an equivalent professional level at a foreign or domestic private institution of reasonably large scale and of a similar nature, and having a good performance record, may be counted towards advancing their salary grade, based on the number of years of such prior work, and to the maximum seniority salary applicable to the professional rank of the position to which they are appointed.The method of calculating the seniority referred to in Paragraph 1 will exclude any number of months less than 1 year, except when taking into account the prior work referred to in Subparagraph 3.The regulations governing the calculation of the advances in salary grade based on seniority earned previously in a position of a similar nature and with a good performance record, and of an equivalent professional level referred to in Paragraphs 1 and 2 will be prescribed by the Ministry of Education.Private educational institution may formulate their own provisions governing the seniority earned by their teachers before they took up their current appointment within the scope stipulated in the preceding 4 paragraphs, taking into due consideration their financial circumstances and requirements.