LAWS COMPANY?NPP Executive Chairman Huang Kuo-chang asked if the Democratic Progressive Party thought the Legislative Yuan was a company it had to manage
Taipei Times
Date: Oct 28, 2016
By: Abraham Gerber / Staff reporter
Procedural moves by the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) to push through controversial
New Power Party Executive Chairman Huang Kuo-chang reacts at a meeting of the legislature’s Social Welfare and Environmental Hygiene Committee at the Legislative Yuan in Taipei yesterday after an announcement that his party’s motion would not be considered. Photo: Chien Jung-fong, Taipei Times
amendments to the Labor Standards Act (勞動基準法) have betrayed promises for congressional reform, New Power Party (NPP) Executive Chairman Huang Kuo-chang (黃國昌) said yesterday.
At a meeting of the legislature’s Social Welfare and Environmental Hygiene Committee, the committee’s DPP majority confirmed the minutes of an Oct. 5 meeting, in which amendments to the act were reviewed.
Committee co-convener Wu Yu-chin (吳玉琴) of the DPP refused to consider a NPP motion demanding discussion of purported procedural flaws at the earlier meeting.
NPP legislators sat quietly on the sidelines during an initial fracas between DPP and Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) lawmakers at the opening of the meeting, but Huang made a start for the front of the room after Wu announced that his party’s resolution would not be considered and was visibly agitated afterward, shedding tears.
“I was absolutely shocked when [Wu] announced that she would not consider the motion,” Huang said. “It is unacceptable that she was not even willing to address such an important procedural question.”
“What right does [the DPP] have to refuse to deal with this?” he ask [FULL STORY]
