The China Post
Date: July 27, 2016
By: John Liu, The China Post
TAIPEI, Taiwan — Boycotted by corporations, the Labor Ministry convened base wage review
Seats are left vacant by corporate representatives at a minimum wage review meeting held at the Labor Ministry, Tuesday, July 26. The meeting was attended by government and labor representatives but failed to reach a conclusion.
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meeting concluded on Tuesday without reaching any substantive agreement.
While the meeting was attended by 14 government and labor representatives, all seven corporate representatives chose to sit out the event yesterday.
The corporate representatives said their absence was a means to express their discontent with a pending policy that would give workers more vacation days.
The meeting was held yesterday anyway, since the number of attendees reached the legal minimum. However, the absence of corporate representatives prevented the attendees from reaching a conclusion.
In a media briefing after the meeting, a Labor Ministry official said that, should corporate representatives once again fail to attend, the government and labor representatives would not continue to be courteous and would go ahead with forging deals. [FULL STORY]
