UNFAIR:The cancelation of seven holidays would make student workers unable to earn the overtime pay they deserve, a member of the Labor Struggle group said
Taipei Times
Date: Oct 24, 2016
By: Chen Wei-han / Staff reporter
Nearly 100 students demonstrated in front of the Democratic Progressive Party’s (DPP) headquarters in
Students demonstrate in front of the Democratic Progressive Party’s headquarters in Taipei yesterday, in protest against a draft amendment to the Labor Standards Act. Photo: Peter Lo, Taipei Times
Taipei yesterday, accusing the party of reneging on its campaign promises by seeking to cancel seven national holidays, a move they said would hurt the rights of part-time student workers.
Students from 59 organizations and unions marched from the legislative and executive branch buildings to the DPP headquarters to protest a draft amendment to the Labor Standards Act (勞動基準法), which would implement a five-day workweek with one regular day off and one flexible rest day and reduce the number of national holidays from 19 to 12.
The demonstration was the latest in a series of protests after the amendment passed a first reading at the Legislative Yuan earlier this month.
They placed a liver-shaped papier-mache sculpture in front of the DPP’s headquarters and set off a firecracker inside the prop to symbolize how the amendment could damage workers’ health. [FULL STORY]
