Bus driver unions have criticized digital punch clocks used for logging hours. In particular, the clocks do not appear to be compatible with the software for their dashboards, preventing error messages from appearing. When disconnected, error messages would reappear...
The Highway Bureau is reportedly considering recruiting international students and students of ethnic Han descent to fill positions as bus drivers, provided they speak intermediate-level Chinese. This continues the pattern of Taiwan opening up migrant worker categories for the so-called “3D”–“dirty, dangerous, and demeaning”–jobs that Taiwanese no longer want to take up themselves...
The Ministry of Labor has halted a plan that would have opened up six new categories of work to foreign students who have graduated from university in Taiwan. These new categories are in nursing, driving buses, cargo inventory, cargo vehicle driving, safety personnel for buses, and inventory management...
Tour bus drivers have announced plans to protest new requirements from the Ministry of Transportation and Communications (MOTC) for tour buses to be installed with GPS trackers and card readers...
Around sixty drivers from bus operator SF E-bus went on strike late last month, resulting in thirteen routes serviced by the company being unable to operate. Of 476 scheduled bus routes, 470 were canceled...
Transportation workers in Taiwan continue to be overworked, as reflected in reports that bus drivers working for the Taoyuan Bus Company were made to fake their working hours by their employers...
