Schools won’t be on the hook for adjunct professors pension payments

The China Post
Date: March 28, 2017
By: Sun Hsin Hsuan

TAIPEI, Taiwan — The Ministry of Education pulled a U-turn Monday, retracting a previously announced policy that would have included all nontenured professors under the umbrella of the Labor Standards Act.

Education Minister Pan Wen-chung (潘文忠) said at the Legislature’s Education and Culture Committee that the inclusion should be “reconsidered.”

Amending the regulations governing the employment of nontenured professors would perhaps be a more pragmatic approach that would create fewer problems, Pan said.
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