Editorial
Taiwan News
Date: 2016-09-12
By: Cli Square, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
The recent conflict between the capital and labor in Taiwan is centered on the issue of “overworking”
In fact, everyone wants to be able to live, and every enterprise wants to be able to sustain.
In order to live, individuals have to work to make money whether they are “blue-collar” or “white-collar” workers.
And for enterprises, they have to make profits in order to sustain. Besides paying for employees’ salaries, enterprises also have to pay for utilities in the working environments, rents for the working spaces, office supplies, costs of management and accounting, etc. Therefore, profits are made after the expenditure is deducted from the income. So an employee has to contribute to the company’s income at least 1.5 times of his or her salary to benefit the company. If you are a boss, you will think the same way, too. [FULL STORY]