LOOKING AHEAD:The Executive Yuan has divided its proposals into eight categories, ranging from economic development and ‘green’ energy to cross-strait relations
Taipei Times
Date: Sep 19, 2017
By: Chen Wei-han / Staff reporter
The Cabinet has tabled 72 priority bills for the new legislative session, including a
Premier William Lai, center, waves yesterday while attending an international conference on dengue fever epidemic prevention in Taipei. Photo: CNA
draft amendment to the national workweek scheme.
While its top five priorities are the annual government budgets for this year and next, the budget for a two-year river management plan, an amendment to the workweek scheme and a tax reform proposal, the proposal that is attracting the most attention is one to amend the Labor Standards Act (勞動基準法) to establish what the Executive Yuan has called a“safe and flexible work scheme.”
The bill will be the first proposal from the Cabinet on the workweek policy, as changes to the act that were promulgated in December last year were drafted by the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) caucus, Executive Yuan spokesman Hsu Kuo-yung (徐國勇) said yesterday following a coordination meeting between the Executive Yuan and DPP caucus. [FULL STORY]
