IN THE AIR: The ministry received approval to disband the board of Yung Ta, but the board appealed and has still not fully paid its former faculty dismissed in 2014
Taipei Times
Date: Dec 13, 2019
By: Rachel Lin and Jake Chung / Staff reporter, with staff writer
The Ministry of Education (MOE) yesterday said it would enforce the closure of Yung Ta Institute of
Former Yung Ta Institute of Technology and Commerce faculty hold signs at a protest outside the Executive Yuan in Taipei yesterday, saying that the school has not paid them since its 2014 closure.
Photo: Lee Hsin-fang, Taipei Times\
Former school employees yesterday protested outside the Executive Yuan and the ministry, accusing the ministry of failing in its duties and calling for the school to compensate them for salary owed, severance payments and civil servant insurance payouts.
The ministry received court approval to disband the school’s board of directors on Aug 29, after applying in March, on grounds that the school, in Pingtung County’s Linluo Township (麟洛), had breached Article 25 of the Private School Act (私立學校法) and had stopped paying its former faculty members’ monthly pensions.
However, the school’s board appealed the decision, leaving the case — along with obligations to pay former staff and faculty — hanging in the air. [FULL STORY]
