Infectious disease, Incontinence, Tuberculosis...Delete the criteria for failing a civil servant's physical examination
Discrimination against people with disabilities, cancer patients and infectious diseases will disappear in physical examinations when hiring public servants. Initially, patients who failed to hear less than 40 decibels (dB) due to both hearing abilities, or had leukemia or tuberculosis disease failed the physical examination, but these diseases were removed from the criteria for failure.
Personnel Office Announces 'Revision of Physical Inspection Regulations for Public Servants' Employment'
Eliminate all infectious diseases such as tuberculosis and chickenpox as a whole of the criteria for failure
Pass even if you have a disability or cancer without 'work interruption'
The Ministry of Personnel Management on Friday announced a "partial revision of the physical inspection regulations for hiring public servants." Under the revision, the number of diseases that were used as criteria for failing physical examinations for hiring public servants has been drastically reduced from 53 to 22. We have eliminated diseases that can be recovered through treatment and that do not interfere with the performance of our work," said Shin In-cheol, head of the human resources policy division at the Ministry of Personnel Innovation.
According to the existing "Body Test for Public Servants' Employment," 53 diseases were listed as failed factors. As for double infectious disease diseases, "someone who has contracted the infection but is not properly treated" has been rejected or is likely to infect others under the "Act on Prevention and Management of Infectious Diseases." In addition to tuberculosis, infectious diseases such as chicken pox, measles, and aquarium disease contributed to the failure.
The revision completely removed infectious disease from the criteria for judging failure. After consulting with his doctor, Shin Shin Shin-chul said, "If a tuberculosis patient takes medicine, the contagiousness disappears," adding, "We judged that there was no disruption to our work." Among the infectious diseases, AIDS (AIDS) was not included in the original criteria for rejection. Under the Huchon-Sung immunodeficiency Prevention Act, people are not allowed to deal with disadvantages or discrimination in working relations because they have AIDS.
The physical examination of government officials was eliminated due to disability. Previously, it was rejected if calibration hearing was not heard below 40 dB and if calibration vision was below 0.2. He also rejected "if using supplementary equipment does not have the ability to write." The revision limited the criteria for failure to "when there is a major disruption to the performance of the task."
"In the past one or two years, there has not been a single case in which acceptance has been cancelled due to an obstacle in the appointment of government ministries or local government officials," said Um Umji-ho, an official at the Personnel Management Policy Division of the Ministry of Personnel Innovation. "In the case of the disabled, the welfare law for the disabled is applied with priority over the criteria for judging failure of the physical examination, and they are all employed according to the prohibition of discrimination."
It also deleted criteria for failing physical examinations for cancer such as leukemia and thyroid gland cancer. The existing "non-passing criteria" specifically listed serious diseases, including cancer from endocrine and blood and nervous systems, as criteria for failure. The revised bill will be rejected only if it has "a major disruption" to the performance of the work after further examination by a specialist. There have been no cases of cancer patients failing physical examinations, Um said.
The general disease was also significantly removed from the "Fail Criteria." Previously, esophagus, jaw joint problems, and severe urinary fines were all reasons for rejection, but all of them were deleted from the revised bill. The revision will apply to physical examinations of civil servants' recruitment tests, which will be implemented next year.
We have changed the criteria for public servants` physical examinations more rationally and accurately, said Hwang Seo-jong, head of the human resources innovation office, adding that if the revision is implemented, we expect to increase confidence in the recruitment system to most public organizations that follow the rules on public servants` physical examinations.
