Taipei Times
Date: Jul 01, 2016
By Abraham Gerber / Staff reporter

More than 100 union members yesterday protested outside the Executive Yuan and

Labor unions members yesterday clash with police during a demonstration outside the Executive Yuan in Taipei. Photo: Chang Chia-ming, Taipei Times

Legislative Yuan, calling for restrictions on “compensatory holidays,” as a debate over the implementation of a universal 40-hour work week continues.

Shouting slogans slamming negotiations with business groups and demanding the preservation of public holidays, union members demonstrated for more than one hour, pressing against the police line outside the Executive Yuan before marching to the Legislative Yuan, shouting that they would monitor members of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) leadership and Social Welfare and Environment Hygiene Committee after amendments by the Executive Yuan to the Labor Standards Act (勞動基準法) are submitted.

The proposed amendments are to give workers two days off per week, with more stringent overtime requirements and higher pay for work performed during off days, in response to labor campaigners’ argument that mandating a 40-hour workweek would not guarantee a five-day workweek without additional regulations over weekly off days.     [FULL  STORY]