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Labor Groups Rallying to Urge Presidential Candidates to Regard Labor Policies

2016/01/10 • Zou Chi

The director of the labor alliance says that no matter who wins the presidential election, the workers will continue to supervise the government and keep fighting for labor rights.

THSRC Employees Owed NT$500 Million Overtime Pay and Request Leaves on Chinese Lunar New Year

2016/01/09 • Yang

According to the Taiwan High-Speed Rail Workers' Union, the THSRC has never paid overtime on national holidays and owe its employees a total of NT$500 million (approximately US$15 million) overtime pay. So far the debts have been ignored by the THSRC.

Seven National Holidays Cut Back in Taiwan Starting From 2016

2015/08/31 • Shih Yuan

With the amendment of the Labor Standards Act being carried out in 2016, weekly working hours will be reduced to 40 hours and the Ministry of Labor has decided to unify leave benefits. It will promote five-day weeks and cut the number of national holidays from 19 to 12 days.