Seven public holidays that were eliminated in an effort to pave way for implementation of a five-day week by President Tsai Ing-wen’s government should be restored prior to any discussion about changes to the controversial law, labor unions in Taiwan say.
An online petition on “restoring the seven public holidays” has gathered over 4,000 signatures – only a 1,000 names short of the minimum requirement needed to press the government to officially comment on this public concern, the Udn Daily News reported on Wednesday.
A labor union representative surnamed Chen said workers have not seen much actual benefit from the five-day-week policy, such as higher overtime payments or more rest days, while being deprived of their rights after the seven public holidays were cancelled.
The seven holidays are New Year’s Day, Youths’ Day, Teachers’ Day, Taiwan Retrocession Day, the birthday of President Chiang Kai-shek, the birthday of Dr Sun Yat-sen and Constitution Day.
She argued that regardless of amendments for the policy, all Taiwan workers should have been entitled to these seven public holidays as a standard holiday entitlement, which would restore the total number to 19 days annually.
Many employer is not following the regulation as many employee is afraid to complain because they can loose their job. Labor bureau as they are getting the tax payer money is not doing anything as they just sit on their office and wait for the complainant. They should also check if all the employer is following the rules.
Most of the factory boss and the broker dont follow rule they only want to get money from us too much deductions we only receive a handfull of our salaries im lex from kaoshioung.
..I don’t care ….we caretakers/caregivers don’t fall into that category anyway….having no day off is not enough ..so holiday is worst cause we don’t get paid anyway! !
dapat ang implement nila un unlimited yon sana ang maaprove
I completely disagree…he was physically abusive. He was hitting her. if you fell in love with a man, moved I. with him, then he slowly/occasionally hitting you, then the hitting became more frequent: would you actually stay with him? Do you think if you left him that it means you were using him for his money?
Good morning..
unfortunately, if you want workers rights, you must stand up and risk loosing your job. The government will not take the time to follow up with every company. This is the way it has been in all countries around the world throughout history. You have to fight for your rights!
if you want to implement rules for the workers stand for it and also dont be unfair… cause most of us caretakers are no day off so that holiday is useless also we are not getting paid for it…
It’s unfair to us caretaker because our rest day is not implemented and follow by the employer.. please taiwan government be fair enough to us caretaker, we need to rest and feel free oncen a while.. we can get one day off n a month we consider our self as a lucky one.. but supposedly its our decision or our choice if every Sunday we want to rest or not..
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your rigth even we take our day off once.a month our employer deduct in our salary.