Taipei Times
Date: Nov 22, 2017
By: Shelley Shan / Staff reporter
The Taipei Association of Travel Agents yesterday urged the government to cancel
Taipei Association of Travel Agents officials hold a news conference at the association’s office yesterday to discuss the impact of the labor rules on tour bus drivers. Photo: Hsiao Yu-hsin, Taipei Times
regulations requiring tour bus operators to change drivers during seven-day tours for Chinese tourists.
“The government is still amending work-hour regulations in the Labor Standards Act (勞動基準法) and changing the job categories in which the flexible work-hour rules apply,” association chairman Benny Wu (吳志建) told a news conference.
“Taiwan is now welcoming more than 10 million international tourists per year, and the tourism industry should be allowed to utilize flexible hours. We ask the Tourism Bureau to revisit the regulations and cancel them” before the amendment to Act is finalized, he said.
The Tourism Bureau on Wednesday last week announced new amendments to tourism regulations to ensure the quality of tours for Chinese tourists, which are scheduled to take effect on Friday next week. [FULL STORY]
