Union groups have called for civil servants to be allowed to have International Workers’ Day, which is commemorated on May 1st and known as May Day in other parts of the world, off as a holiday...
The Ministry of Labor has released new guidelines on the rights of female migrant workers. Nevertheless, it is to be seen whether the guidelines rectify a longstanding problem in Taiwanese society. One issue of note facing female migrant workers is that many have their work terminated after becoming pregnant. 6,000 female migrant workers become pregnant in Taiwan each year, but 78% of migrant workers who receive maternity benefits end their contracts and return to their home countries...
Migrant worker advocacy groups demonstrated on Wednesday, December 18th. This marked International Migrant Workers’ Day. To mark this, organizations demonstrated in front of the Ministry of Labor...
Autumn Struggle, one of Taiwan’s longest-running labor protests, demonstrated late last month on November 10th. As in past years, participants were mainly left-wing labor organizations. Around two hundred participated in the rally...
The Ministry of Labor has come under fire for a workplace suicide. The suicide took place in the Xinzhuang Joint Office Tower in New Taipei, where the Executive Yuan has some facilities...
The Taichung city government came under fire late last month after a bus accident led to the death of a university student and injured another student. The two university students were studying at Tunghai University...
It is still unclear what will occur with a planned merger between Uber Eats and Foodpanda, with the Fair Trade Commission (FTC) stating earlier this month that it had yet to receive materials to apply for a merger...
Fisheries associations and shipowners in Pingtung and Kaohsiung have been criticized after Typhoon Krathom hit Taiwan. Namely, a number of Indonesian migrant fishermen were ordered by shipowners to stay onboard ships during the typhoon in order to prevent the mooring lines that connect ships to the harbor from breaking, and the ships from drifting out to sea as a result. This occurred despite heavy wind and rain advisories, which resulted in the Kaohsiung county government ordering that ships under 100 tonnes be evacuated. This mostly took place in Donggang Township in Pingtung and Cijin District in Kaohsiung....
The Taiwan Railways Union has criticized a 40% increase in salary for the chair and general manager of the Taiwan Railways Corporation. This means that the chair of the TRC will make 191,380 NT per month and the general manager will make 187,130 NT per month...
