The China Post
Date: September 21, 2016
By Yuan-Ming Chiao
Teacher’s Day, Taiwan Retrocession Day and the Birthday of Chiang Kai-shek are very likely to remain
Democratic Progressive Party lawmaker Lin Shu-fen gestures while questioning Premier Lin Chuan at the Legislative Yuan in Taipei, Tuesday, Sept. 20. (Yuan-Ming Chiao, The China Post)
public holidays this year despite the central government’s order to scrap them, an opposition lawmaker said Tuesday.
The government had ordered the cancellation of the holidays, which fall on Sept. 28, Oct. 25 and Oct. 31, respectively, as part of a package of labor policy adjustments.
Kuomintang lawmaker Wang Yu-min said Tuesday it was “all but certain” that the three public holidays would stand this year because the legislation needed to cancel them would not be completed in time.
Wang said that the “flash mob” holidays — set to be “here this year and gone the next”— was a sign of an “incomprehensive government policy.”
The fate of this year’s other “canceled” holidays — Sun Yat-sen’s Birthday (Nov. 12) and Constitution Day (Dec. 25) — remains uncertain. [FULL STORY]
