Han says changes have left both business and workers grumbling

Taiwan News
Date: 2019/10/17
By: Matthew Strong, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – Kuomintang (KMT) presidential candidate Han Kuo-yu (韓國瑜) said

Thursday (October 17) he would abolish President Tsai Ing-wen’s (蔡英文) “one fixed day off, one flexible day off” (一例一休) labor reforms if he won next January’s election.

Revised just last year, the formula stipulating that employees must have one mandatory day off and one flexible day off per seven days has been unpopular both with business groups and with labor activists. The government has defended the measure as a balanced way of protecting workers’ interests.

Han pointed at the widespread dissatisfaction with the formula to say he would come out and abolish it if elected president next January 11.

A spokesman for Han said that the Labor Standards Act needed to be changed again, under the precondition that the flexibility of management and workers’ rights were safeguarded, the Central News Agency reported.    [FULL  STORY]