The Contents of an Empowering Programme for Staff Working With Retired Volunteers

This article focuses on the development and content of an empowerment programme for staff members at a service centre. An empowerment programme for staffworking with retired volunteers can bring about better knowledge and understanding of elderly persons. This can lead to the target group being ideally managed and understood. The personnel work and interact on a daily basis with retired volunteers. The empowering programme includes matters such as the life circumstances of retired volunteers, the value that retired volunteers have, for the functioning of the service centre, the reasons for utilising retired volunteers, what volunteers expect of staff members, and the motivation of retired volunteers to be involved in the various activities of a service centre for the elderly to benefit the staff members themselves. By presenting and evaluating the empowerment programme, staff members will be able to become functional units in utilising elderly volunteers to the fullest possible in order to benefit the staff members, the retired volunteers, and the community at large.

My Spring Festival in a Sister City A story of a staff member of Chengdu Foreign and Overseas Chinese Affairs Office

Tasting delicious local food and watching an NBA basketball game live enabled me to gain a deeper insight into Phoenix,an international sister city of Chengdu.On the second day after the Chinese New Year holiday,I left Chengdu on an official trip to the United States as a staff member of the Chengdu Foreign and Overseas Chinese Affairs Office.After a flight of 20 hours,we ar-

Over ten years after the implementation of the Teacher's Law:watching and expecting

It has been over ten years since the Teacher's Law took effect on January 1,1994,and its promulgation and implementation have somewhat helped in protecting teachers'legal rights and interests.Undeniably,however,the Teacher's Law is defective in many aspects,such as the absence of teachers'legal identity,its failure to safeguard a teacher's essential interests and rights,serious laggardness of the teacher's appointment system and obstacles to dealing with teachers'complaints and litigations.All such defectiveness make the legislative purpose“to safeguard the teacher's legal rights and interests”in Article 1 of the Teacher's Law less effective in practice.Therefore,in order to judicially assist teachers in safeguarding their own legal rights and interests,it is necessary to modify the Teacher's Law and especially give priorities to:(1)defining the identity of the state staff member for teachers;(2)treating teachers owed to in arrears as peasant-workers,and paying and remunerating them punctually(3)formulating detailed measures on the implementation of the teacher's appointment system as soon as possible,solving problems of unemployment of teachers arising from the inequality between the teacher's rights,the school's power and the absence of the teacher's identity;(4)establishing a lawsuit system connected with teachers'complaints and personnel arbitration.