Authorities reconciling labor standards for aviation industry

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/08/20
By: Lee Hsin-Yin

Taipei, Aug. 20 (CNA) The transport ministry and labor ministry are working to reconcile different labor standards with the aim of resolving disputes between airlines and pilots over the issue of overwork, officials have said amid ongoing strike threats by China Airlines (CAL) and EVA Airways pilots.

Ever since the Pilots Taoyuan Union, which represents 70 percent of CAL’s pilots and 50 percent of EVA Air’s pilots, voted Aug. 7 in favor of a strike, Minister of Transportation and Communications Wu Hong-mo (吳宏謀) has pledged several times to review the two sets of rules governing pilots’ working hours.    [FULL  STORY]