Cafe chain to stage massive layoffs

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2019/08/23
By: Chang Jung-hsiang, Chang Hsiung-feng, Jiang Ming-yan and 
Frances Huang

Taipei, Aug. 23 (CNA) Crown & Fancy, a Tainan-headquartered coffee shop chain, is planning to lay off most of its employees after the company suffered heavy losses amid escalating competition in the local coffee market, the Ministry of Labor (MOL) said Friday.

The MOL said Crown & Fancy will lay off 224 of its 283 employees around Taiwan, scheduled to take effect Oct. 20.

According to the MOL, the massive layoffs include 55 from its Tainan stores, 22 from its Taipei outlets, 32 from its New Taipei stores, 22 from its Taichung outlets and 93 from its Kaohsiung operations.

Wang Hou-wei (王厚偉), director of the MOL's Department of Employment Relations, told reporters that Crown & Fancy filed a report to the Labor Affairs Bureau of the Tainan City government Aug. 19 regarding the layoffs.    [FULL  STORY]