Taipei Times
Date: Sep 04, 2016
By: Wu Po-wei and Jake Chung / Staff reporter, with staff writer

Workers’ rights advocates on Thursday announced the founding of the National Communication and Media Industry Union, which is aimed at improving the working conditions of people employed in the mass communication industry.
Media Workers Union member Lu Yi-jung (呂苡榕) said that conditions are on the decline for media workers, with overtime without pay or not logging actual working hours common occurrences.

Many media workers have reported stress-related auditory or visual hallucinations which have a terrible impact on the physical or mental health of those concerned, she said.

An inspection on working conditions in the media industry carried out by the Taipei Department of Labor last year fined 34 media companies a total of more than NT$10 million (US$315,878) for violations of the Labor Standards Act (勞動基準法), Lu said.     [FULL  STORY]