A majority of respondents approve of the latest changes
Taiwan News
Date: 2018/01/17
By: Matthew Strong, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – A total of 66 percent of workers do not understand the recent
DPP legislator Wang Ding-yu at the opinion poll news conference. (By Central News Agency)
workweek reforms approved by the Legislative Yuan amid protests, according to a poll commissioned by the Taiwan Era think tank (台灣世代智庫).
Only 33.1 percent of respondents understood the contents of the latest version of the Labor Standards Act (勞基法) and 65.9 percent did not, but nevertheless 49.7 percent approved of the changes while 43.4 percent opposed them, the Apple Daily reported.
Most new measures, which amounted to a relaxation of restrictions imposed by workweek reform in 2016, won majority approval from the poll respondents.
The most divisive change was the conditional shortening of the rest period between work shifts from 11 hours to 8 hours, with supporters and opponents amounting to 45.7 percent each.