‘MAGNET OF CONTROVERSY’:Hung called on Legislative Speaker Su Jia-chyuan to stop the legislature from endorsing a bill that infringed upon procedural justice

Taipei Times
Date: Nov 11, 2017
By: Stacy Hsu  /  Staff reporter

The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) yesterday said the Executive Yuan’s hasty passage of a draft amendment to the Labor Standards Act (勞動基準法) on Thursday runs counter to the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) administration’s pledge to build an “open and transparent government.”

In an effort to ensure openness and transparency in government, the DPP administration issued a regulation in September last year stipulating that draft legislation drawn up by government agencies need to be made available to the public for at least 60 days for review and the gathering of opinions, KMT Culture and Communications Committee deputy director-general Hung Meng-kai (洪孟楷) said.

“Despite the pledge, the draft amendment to the Labor Standards Act was passed by the Executive Yuan only eight days after it was released for public review. This is clearly a violation of the 60-day rule and a black box operation,” Hung told a news conference at the KMT’s headquarters in Taipei.

The amendment is the only one of 66 bills passed this year that failed to comply with the 60-day requirement, he said.    [FULL  STORY]