Taiwan News
Date: 2016-09-25
By: George Liao, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
The Office of the President said on Sunday that teachers of public schools work on Teacher’s Day 
while workers in the private sectors rest has been a matter of normality in the past 15 years, and this year the government just follows the practice according to regulations, so the issue of so called “conflicting steps” is not existent.
Former President Ma Ying-jeou was asked by media after participating in a road race on Sunday morning whether he felt the controversy surrounding Teacher’s Day reflects that “Tsai Ing-wen’s administration is chaotic.” Ma, at first, did not respond to the question, but after media’s subsequent pursuit of the question, he said, “There are basically no steps at all,” referring to Tsai’s administration.
Presidential Office spokesman Alex Huang said that since the taking effect of the Regulations of Implementation Program for the Civil Servants’ Two-day-off Week in 2005, it has been a matter of normality in the past 15 years that the national holidays, including the Teacher’s Day, are workings days for military personnel, civil servants and public teachers, but are rest days for workers in private sectors. [FULL STORY]
