Public Institutions Still Practice 'Director Discretion Special Recruitment'... Recommendation to Remove Regulation

Jeon Hyun-hee, Chairperson of the Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission. (Image source=Yonhap News)

[Sejong=Asia Economy Reporter Moon Chaeseok] It has been revealed that some public institutions still maintain discretionary special hiring regulations by institution heads without specific hiring methods or procedures.

On the 27th, the Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission announced that it conducted a corruption impact assessment on the internal regulations of 16 public institutions in the industrial and trade sectors and confirmed this fact.

The Commission recommended deleting such regulations or improving them to specify and clarify the hiring procedures, stating that these regulations could undermine job expertise and raise concerns about preferential hiring for certain individuals.

The Commission also recommended revising regulations, pointing out that some of the public institutions assessed in this corruption impact evaluation operate various committees without properly applying the disqualification, avoidance, and recusal systems to exclude stakeholders' participation.

Additionally, to prevent preferential contracts with retired public officials, the Commission demanded improvements on a total of 51 regulations, including establishing a rule that prohibits direct contracts for two years with companies where retired officials are employed as executives.

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