Two days off for laborers proposal passed in committee

Taiwan News
Date: 2016-07-12
By: George Liao, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

A draft amendment to the Labor Standard Law that aims to change the stipulation of “one official holiday” to “two official holidays” every seven days for private sector workers was passed in a preliminary review by the Legislature’s Social Welfare and Environmental Hygiene Committee on Tuesday.

Taiwan International Workers’ Association researcher Wu Ching-ju hailed the pass of the draft proposal, saying she “agrees with it very much.”

On Tuesday the committee invited Minister of Labor Kuo Fan-yu to make a report on the government’s proposal of “one official holiday and one vacation day” per week for private sector workers. The committee also reviewed KMT Legislator John Wu’s draft amendment to the Labor Standard Law that if becomes law will award private sector employees “two official holidays” per week, the same as what military personnel, civil servants and teachers in the country receive.     [FULL  STYORY]