Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/11/06
By: Lee Hsin-Yin 

Taipei, Nov. 6 (CNA) Dozens of flight attendants protested Tuesday against overwork and accused Taiwan’s aviation regulator, the Civil Aeronautics Administration (CAA), of colluding with local airlines to deprive them of their labor rights.

The protesters outside the CAA, mostly members of the Taoyuan Flight Attendants Union (TFAU) and the EVA Air and China Airlines corporate unions, urged the agency not to draft a separate act for the aviation industry to legalize what they see as overwork.

“The CAA should also ask EVA Air to adjust its current flight rotations, particularly those to Tokyo, Beijing and Phnom Penh, as work hours on those round-trip flights can easily exceed 12 hours,” said Liao Yi-chin (廖以勤), director of the EVA Air Corporate Union.

The flight attendants are asking to fly to the three destinations on a one-way basis each time to avoid the possibility of overwork, which would mean crews on outbound flights could stay overnight at the foreign destination and work on an inbound flight the next day.
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