Editorial
Taiwan News
Date: 2016-09-12
By: Cli Square, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

The recent conflict between the capital and labor in Taiwan is centered on the issue of “overworking” and “disparate treatment” of the labor force on the surface, but the root cause is really the fact that “Taiwanese bosses are not satisfied with their employees, while the country’s workers do not like their bosses either.”

In fact, everyone wants to be able to live, and every enterprise wants to be able to sustain.

In order to live, individuals have to work to make money whether they are “blue-collar” or “white-collar” workers.

And for enterprises, they have to make profits in order to sustain. Besides paying for employees’ salaries, enterprises also have to pay for utilities in the working environments, rents for the working spaces, office supplies, costs of management and accounting, etc. Therefore, profits are made after the expenditure is deducted from the income. So an employee has to contribute to the company’s income at least 1.5 times of his or her salary to benefit the company. If you are a boss, you will think the same way, too.     [FULL  STORY]