The China Post
Date: August 30, 2016
By: Sun Hsin Hsuan
TAIPEI, Taiwan — V Air employees on Monday staged a second protest only 10 days after the first,
A representative surnamed Lin speaks as V Air employees protest what they deem illegal layoffs outside the Taipei City Government building on Monday, Aug. 29. (CNA)
demanding that the Taipei City government step up its actions against what they called unlawful mass layoffs at a local budget airline.
In a shocking announcement last week, TransAsia Airways, the parent company of V Air, decided to shut down its subsidiary for a year and to discharge more than 240 employees.
The announcement came only days after TransAsia said it would suspend all but two V Air flights starting Oct. 1 and that the employees would work under the parent company.
Employees of the budget airline first took collective action last Wednesday — staging a protest and filing a petition to the local government — after learning that a layoff proposal had been “secretly” filed to the Taipei City government. [FULL STORY]