The Ministry of Labour in Taiwan is under process of amending laws to reduce normal working hours from the original being 8 hours per day not exceeding 84 hours per 2 weeks, to a 40 hour work week. This implies that in one week, employees will work 5 days with 2 days off. The amendment is forecasted to be completed and ready for implementation in 2016.
The Ministry of Labour in Taiwan is under process of amending laws to reduce normal working hours from the original being 8 hours per day not exceeding 84 hours per 2 weeks, to a 40 hour work week. This implies that in one week, employees will work 5 days with 2 days off. The amendment is forecasted to be completed and ready for implementation in 2016.
The amendment would allow workers (including foreign workers in Taiwan) to have more days off, but would affect employers by increasing costs of overtime labour by 29.4 billion Taiwanese Dollars annually overall (if employers demand employees to work overtime in compensation for the reduced working hours). It is forecasted that SMEs in the manufacturing industry will be impacted most. The Taiwanese Ministry of Labour is therefore still studying measures to support these affects.
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