BYPASSEDThe proposed changes do not guarantee workers a five-day workweek, employees can still work overtime on their days off, KMT Legislator Wang said
Taipei Times
Date: Nov 15, 2016
By: Abraham Gerber / Staff reporter
A review of amendments to the Labor Standards Act (勞動基準法) was restarted yesterday, as
A member of staff from the Presidential Office accepts a request addressed to President Tsai Ing-wen from workers’ rights demonstrators yesterday. The request asks Tsai to hold a public hearing on the government’s proposed reduction of national holidays. Photo: CNA
members of the Legislative Yuan’s Social Welfare and Environmental Hygiene Committee completed a question-and-answer session with government officials regarding the proposed changes.
The amendments are aimed at bolstering earlier reforms by implementing a universal 40-hour workweek, which drew criticism for not guaranteeing additional weekly days off to compensate for the elimination of seven national holidays.
The committee is to attempt to review and consolidate seven different versions of the amendments this week, following a cross-caucus agreement to return the Democratic Progressive Party’s (DPP) official version to the committee after it was controversially sent directly to cross-caucus negotiations last month.
In addition to the DPP caucus’ and the Executive Yuan’s versions, the other legislative caucuses have also proposed their own versions, as have DPP Legislators Lin Shu-fen (林淑芬) and Chung Kung-chao (鍾孔炤). [FULL STORY]
