PROCEDURE:NPP Legislator Hsu Yung-ming demanded that two DPP lawmakers who did not forfeit their reconsideration rights do so before the review can continue
Taipei Times
Date: Nov 21, 2017
By: Chen Wei-han / Staff reporter
New Power Party (NPP) Legislator Hsu Yung-ming (徐永明) yesterday obstructed the
New Power Party Legislator Hsu Yung-ming, right, breaches normal legislative procedure by standing next to the speaker’s podium to halt a review of the government’s draft amendment to the Labor Standards Act at the Legislative Yuan in Taipei yesterday.
Photo: Chien Jung-fong, Taipei Times
legislative review of a draft amendment to the Labor Standards Act (勞動基準法), citing a potential procedural flaw, while the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) caucus said that the review was completely legal.
During a plenary legislative session on Friday, the amendment passed the first reading and was referred to the legislature’s Economics Committee and the Social Welfare and Environmental Hygiene Committee for reviews that were scheduled to start yesterday.
However, during the joint committee review, Hsu raised a procedural objection and prevented the review.
Hsu said that committee reviews should not have begun until Tuesday next week, when a legally required reconsideration period ends. [FULL STORY]
