Taipei Times
Date: Jan 10, 2018
By: Sean Lin / Staff reporter
Despite intensive negotiations on Monday and yesterday morning, legislators failed to
Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) legislators spread banners and chant slogans on the floor of the Legislative Yuan in Taipei yesterday during deliberations on the government’s proposed amendment to Article 24 of the Labor Standards Act.
Photo: CNA
reach a consensus on several key articles before sending draft amendments to the Labor Standards Act (勞動基準法) to a plenary session for review.
After the New Power Party (NPP) caucus withdrew from cross-caucus talks on Monday evening to protest the proposed amendments, the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) and the People First Party (PFP) caucuses proceeded with the negotiations.
Despite lending support to the Executive Yuan’s proposal to calculate overtime fees by the actual number of hours worked — as opposed to the rule stipulating a minimum of four times an employee’s hourly wage — the caucuses sparred on how compensatory leave should be calculated if an employee chooses to convert overtime pay into compensatory leave.
According to the amendments passed in December 2016, employees should be paid 1.33 times their hourly rate during the first two hours of overtime and 1.66 times their hourly rate from the third hour onward. [FULL STORY]
