Taipei Times
Date: Aug 01, 2016
By: Cheng Chi-fang / Staff reporter

The Executive Yuan’s last-minute decision on Saturday evening to delay the implementation of its “six work days and one rest day” policy — which the Ministry of Labor made without consulting industries — showed that the new government’s decisionmaking process is sloppy and out of touch. Worse than having a policy flip-flop, government officials are like troublemakers who busy themselves fighting fires that they themselves started.

Following a three-hour inter-ministrial meeting on Saturday, Minister of Labor Kuo Fong-yu (郭芳煜) told a news conference that the Cabinet decided that implementation of the new work day rules, initially scheduled to take effect today, would be postponed for two months.

The new rules have sparked an outcry in some industries, such as tourism, media and transportation, which have argued that they need rostering flexibility and the new rules would make that difficult.     [FULL  STORY]