Taipei Times
Date: Jan 06, 2017
By: Chang Yi-chen, Yang Chun-hui, Shih Hsiao-kuang and Jake Chung / Staff reporters, with staff writer
The Ill-gotten Party Assets Settlement Committee will look into the issue of Chinese Nationalist Party
Ill-gotten Party Assets Settlement Committee Chairman Wellington Koo speaks during a radio interview yesterday in Taipei. Photo: CNA
(KMT) workers’ salaries after it receives a list of workers from the party, committee Chairman Wellington Koo (顧立雄) said yesterday, while proposing that the committee, the KMT and the workers hold a meeting on the issue.
The KMT last week applied to withdraw funds from its frozen assets to pay its workers, asking for NT$55 million (US$1.7 million), but did not provide a list of party workers to whom the money would be paid.
Speaking in a radio interview, Koo said the KMT had asked for the money to give its workers’ severance pay before the end of this month.
KMT party workers on Wednesday petitioned the Taipei Department of Labor for an “enforced negotiation” session over the money owed to them by the KMT, saying they only received half their salary in November and last month due to the freezing of the party’s assets. [FULL STORY]
