Regulations on Special Leave for Contract-based Employees of the Executive Yuan and Subordinated Agencies Article Revisions Article 4

For those employees who have served consecutively for more than one year,7 days’ Consolation Leave is given starting from the second year；forthose who have served for more than three years, 14 days’ leave is givenstarting from the fourth year;for those who have served for more than sixyears, 21 days’ leave is given starting from the seventh year；for thosewho have served for more than nine years, 28 days’ leave is given startingfrom the tenth year；for those who have served for more than fourteen years,30 days’ leave is given starting from the fifteenth year.For new employees who start working after February, their Consolation Leaveentitlement in the following January shall be determined based on theirlength of service from the work start date to the end of that firstcalendar year. Based on the Consolation Leave entitlement rules specifiedin the preceding paragraph, the number of service months from the startdate to the end of the calendar year shall be calculated in accordancewith the employee’s months of employment as a proportion of the 12months in the year. The fraction rounding rules specified in Paragraph 2of the preceding article shall apply. The Consolation Leave entitlementfor employees with less than one year of service shall be calculated bymultiplying the proportion of service by seven days. Starting from Januaryof the third year, the Consolation Leave shall be granted based on theseniority rules stated in the preceding paragraph.Employees shall use up all the Consolation Leave they shall take in a yearby the end of the year, otherwise the agencies will assume they give up therest days of Consolation Leave of the year.After deducting days of Consolation Leave employees shall take in a year,employees could take the rest days of leave in the next year upon theapproval of employing agencies, on the condition that they leave theirprevious agencies and enter their current agencies on the same day. Ifemployees have not taken their unused days of leave by the end of thenext year or the termination date of the contracts, the agencies willassume they give up the rest of Consolation Leave of the year.The employees could be subsidized when taking their consolation leave.After deducting days of Consolation Leave employees shall take in a year,if employees could not use up all of the rest days of leave due toofficial reasons approved by the superiors of the agency, and they willnot take the unused days of leave in the next year according to thestipulation of Paragraph 4, Article 3, their employing agencies may givethem overtime pay for unused days of Consolation Leave or other rewards.