‘DEEPEST GRATITUDE’: Tsai said military personnel, civil servants and public-school teachers are pillars of society who have shown their unwavering support for Taiwan
Taipei Times
Date: Jun 22, 2018
By: Su Yung-yao and Jonathan Chin / Staff reporter, with staff writer
With pension reform plans to go into effect next month, President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英
President Tsai Ing-wen, left, speaks at the Presidential Office in Taipei yesterday at a news conference in which she apologized to military personnel, civil servants and teachers for cutting their pensions. Photo: CNA
文) yesterday apologized to military personnel, public servants and public-school teachers for cutting their pensions.
Tsai made the remarks at a news conference at the Presidential Office in Taipei held after the passage of an amendment to the Act of Military Service for Officers and Noncommissioned Officers of the Armed Forces (陸海空軍軍官士官服役條例) late on Wednesday.
The amendment was the last piece of legislation in the Tsai administration’s agenda to overhaul the pension systems for the nation’s military personnel, civil servants and public-school teachers. [FULL STORY]
