DAY OFF?Business leaders say the government proposal would increase labor costs, while workers’ rights advocates say it would compel employees to do more overtime
Taipei Times
Date: Jun 30, 2016
By: Stacy Hsu / Staff reporter
The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) yesterday cast doubt on the credibility of a poll that the
Cabinet spokesman Tung Chen-yuan, center, Minister of Labor Kuo Fang-yu, left, and Vice Minister of Labor Kuo Kuo-wen yesterday hold a news conference in Taipei to introduce the ministry’s draft amendment to the Labor Standards Act. Photo: Huang Yao-cheng, Taipei Times
Ministry of Labor said indicated a high level of public support for its proposed “one fixed day off with one flexible rest day” (一例一休) policy, alleging that the survey was conducted by a peripheral agency of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP).
KMT Culture and Communications Committee deputy director-general Hu Wen-chi (胡文琦) told a news conference at party headquarters yesterday morning in Taipei that he suspected that half of the respondents in the poll were not private-sector employees, but rather DPP staffers.
“The survey cited by the ministry was conducted by Master Survey and Research Co (精湛民調), whose chairman, Cheng Chun-sheng (鄭俊昇), and supervisor, Lee Kuan-fang (李寬芳), formerly worked for the DPP’s poll center,” Hu said.
Hu said that after netizens drew attention to the association between Master Survey and Research and the DPP, the company removed all background information about its staff members on Tuesday. [FULL STORY]
