The China Post
Date: August 19, 2016
By: Yuan-Ming Chiao
TAIPEI, Taiwan — A top Cabinet official Thursday defended the compensation deal for
At the China Youth Corps’ Taichung branch on Thursday, Aug. 18, members of the Freeway Toll Clerk Union (國道收費員自救會) celebrate reaching a compensation agreement with the government after two years of protest. The toll collectors were made redundant following the introduction of electronic fare collection.
(CNA)
laid-off highway toll collectors, saying it was necessary due to the “negligence” of previous agreements.
“The government and Far Eastern Electronic Toll Collection Co. (FETN) misjudged the process of finding jobs for the workers,” minister without portfolio Lin Wan-i (林萬億) said during a Cabinet press conference.
The comments came after some media reports painted the deal as overly kind to toll booth operators, who protested for more than two years to secure Wednesday’s agreement.
Earlier agreements between previous Transportation Ministry officials and FETN were “inadequate” to address the difficulties in transferring the toll collectors to new jobs, Lin said. [FULL STORY]
