DESPITE THE TURMOIL: The controversy surrounding the amendments shows that Taiwan is a society willing to accommodate a plurality of opinions, the president said
Taipei Times
Date: Jan 11, 2018
By: Sean Lin and Jake Chung / Staff reporter and staff writer
Controversial amendments to the Labor Standards Act (勞動基準法) yesterday cleared
Legislators from the ruling and opposition camps nap at the legislature in Taipei early yesterday morning during an overnight review of amendments to the Labor Standards Act. Photo: Liu Hsin-de, Taipei Times
the legislature, with President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) apologizing for the inconvenience caused by her administration’s two revisions of the act within a year.
Under the amended act, overtime pay is to remain at least 1.33 times a worker’s normal hourly wage for the first two hours and at least 1.66 times from the third hour onward on weekdays.
The rates are to remain at 2.33 and 2.66 times a worker’s normal rates if they are asked to work on their weekly “flexible” day off.
However, workers would no longer be paid overtime in blocks of four hours, but by the actual number of hours they work. [FULL STORY]