Focus Taiwan
Date: 2015/12/15
By: Liu Jian-bang, Zoe Wei and Evelyn Kao
Taipei, Dec. 15 (CNA) Some 30 labor activists stormed into the Ministry of Labor (MOL)
Taiwan has enforced a 40-hour, five-day work week system for civil servants since 2001, but the Labor Standards Act was not correspondingly amended to allow the country’s entire workforce to enjoy the same treatment.
Workers who do not have a 40-hour work week are currently eligible to take the extra official holidays under the ministry’s current rules.
The MOL therefore pushed for an amendment to the Act that would apply the 40-hour work week system to the entire workforce by cutting the number of national holidays. [FULL STORY]