1.  What is Health Human resource agent (HR Agent)

Health Human Resource Agent is providing human resource service for health related job seekers and employers. It is an exchange platform for the government personnel departments and health personnels, to manage the personal profiles and provide employment services in accordance with the national policies, laws and regulations. The establishment and implementation of HR agent system can not only reduce the substantial work burden of dealing with personnel issues for the employers, but also decrease employee’s dependence on their employing organizations. It can achieve the genuine autonomy for the employer organizations, particularly to help conduct the human resource recruitment, new graduates recruitment, professional skill evaluation, personnel recording management, registered residence linkage and other services for the public and private health enterprises. For all the human resources, this kind of systematic improvement can change the dependent relations between individuals and their working organizations, and achieve the transformation from “individual of the working organization” to “individual of the society”.

 

2.  Background of Health Human Resource Agent

Health Human resource agent is the certain result of the personnel system reform under the socialist marketing economy. The implementation of this system can help to regulate the rational flow and develop the potential working talents of human resources in order to optimal the human resource allocation. The Health Human Resource Development Center (HHRDC) of the Ministry of Health is established along with the health personnel system reform of the national health organizations aiming to improve organizational restructure, enhance the rational flow of health human resources and promote the optimal allocation of health human resources.

 

3.  Main responsibilities of social service system for Health Human Resources, HHRDC

·  Human resource policy consultation;

·  Human development planning and salary package design;

·  Human resource diagnosis;

·  Health personnel skill examination;

·  Personnel training;

·  Recruitment and employment services;

·  Position application, personnel file acceptance, registered family residence identification, professional skill evaluation and other related procedures for the newly graduates of university, college and secondary technical schools (including non-Beijing students);

·  Acceptance and standard management of personnel files, and provide relevant proofs with personnel recording identification;

·  Recording and salary adjustment;

·  Urban employee job registration procedure;

·  Professional technical qualification (Professional title) and career qualification evaluation;

·  Oversee political checking, exemption and certification;

·  Career introduction to the unemployed and individuals

·  Social insurance and housing public accumulation fund;

·  Birth control management

·  Family registered residence, Party organizational relation and personnel administrative relation receive and management;

·  Organizational structure and position analysis;

·  Personnel dispute reconcilement services;

·   And other social services.

 

Social Security aims to provide basic living rights and securities for the social members, especially people with extreme living difficulties, based on the adoption of legislations on national income distribution and redistribution.

 

According to the Constitution of People’s Republic of China, “citizens of the People’s Republic of China have the rights to receive material assistance from the country and society under the condition of aging, illness and losing working abilities”.

 

Generally speaking, social security includes social insurance, social aids, social welfare, special care and placement and others. Within all the contents, social insurance is the core component. According to the current global situation, the main social security models include national welfare system (UK), national insurance system (formal Soviet Union), social collective financing system (Germany) and accumulative saving system (Singapore). At present, China is establishing the social collective financing system. The social security financing plan includes the government, employment organization (enterprises) and individuals. This kind of model will be in the process of reform for a long time from now on. The enhancement of individual responsibility has been realized as a common direction for global social security system reform. Social security is a basic social economic system and is related to the fundamental living issues. China has established the urban social security system.

 

Social security system includes five insurances, which are: health insurance, aging insurance, industrial injury insurance, maternity insurance and unemployment insurance. Besides, it includes social insurance foundation, housing security, social assistance, social welfare and others.