Focus Taiwan
Date: 2019/01/06
By: Chung Jung-feng and William Yen

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Taipei, Jan. 6 (CNA) Approximately 4,000 full time workers in Taiwan’s solar power industry are currently on unpaid leave, while over 10,000 part-timers also have had their work hours cut, according to an industry representative Sunday.

Kuo Hsuan-fu (郭軒甫), head of the PV Generation System Association of R.O.C. (PVGSA), said the cutbacks were due to a production slowdown in the industry.

Some of the 4,000 full-time employees on furlough and the 10,000 part-time employees on reduced hours are working no more than 10 days per month on average, Kuo said.

He said production at solar power companies in Taiwan had dropped from approximately 100 Mega Watts of solar cells per month to 8 MW in December 2018.
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